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WEBCAST APR 1: To sanction or not to sanction the Internet access: A SancNet debate
by Joly MacFie 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

To prep for this, you might read Andrew Sullivan's blog post 'Why the World Must Resist Calls to Undermine the Internet <https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2022/03/why-the-world-must-resist-call…>', and contrast it to Bill Woodcock's paper 'Multistakeholder Imposition of Internet Sanctions <https://www.pch.net/resources/Papers/Multistakeholder-Imposition-of-Interne…> ' [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/sancnet>On *Friday, April 1st 2022* at *4pm-5pm CEST* (14:00-15:00 UTC) the *Global Internet Governance Academic Network <https://www.giga-net.org/>* (GigaNet), the *UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy <https://law.ucla.edu/academics/centers/institute-technology-law-policy>*, *Digital Medusa <https://digitalmedusa.org/>*, *ARTICLE19 <https://www.article19.org/>*, and the *University of Amsterdam IN-SIGHT.it <https://in-sight.it/>* project, present '*To sanction or not to sanction the Internet access: A SancNet debate <https://www.giga-net.org/to-sanction-or-not-to-sanction-the-internet-access…>*'. A panel will tackle questions such as: Can there be “effective” sanctions imposed on the Internet that are proportional, deterrent and not just symbolic? Can we have an interoperable Internet or will SancNet not work? *PANEL* *Andrew Sullivan*, CEO, Internet Society *Farzaneh Badii*, Founder, Digital Medusa *Bill Woodcock*, Executive Director, Packet Clearing House *Yik-Chan Chin*, Professor, Beijing Normal University *Svitlana Matvitenko*, Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University, School of Communication *MODERATOR* *Courtney Radsch*, Fellow, Institute for Technology, Law & Policy, UCLA / ARTICLE19 US adviser *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/sancnet <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/sancnet>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3NDZ1md <https://bit.ly/3NDZ1md>* *REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3JXZ4Ha <https://bit.ly/3JXZ4Ha>* *TWITTER #SancNet <https://bit.ly/SancNet> @giganetr @UCLAtech @article19org @farzanehbad @SullivanISOC @woodyatpch @YikChanChin @svitlanax @courtneyr #NetGov #sanctions* *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/sancnet <https://archive.org/details/sancnet>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/15303/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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WEBCAST MAR 31 – Internet Poverty Index Launch Webinar – Which are the most Internet poor countries in the world?
by Joly MacFie 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

This is underway. REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3NDeOl6 ISOC Live posted: "On Thursday 31 March 2022 at 3pm-4pm CEST (13:00-14:00 UTC) the World Data Lab (WDL) in collaboration with the Internet Society Foundation presents a webinar 'Which are the most Internet poor countries in the world?' to launch the Internet Poverty Index. " [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/internetpoverty>On *Thursday 31 March 2022* at *3pm-4pm CEST* (13:00-14:00 UTC) the *World Data Lab <https://worlddata.io/>* (WDL) in collaboration with the *Internet Society Foundation <https://www.isocfoundation.org/>* presents a webinar '*Which are the most Internet poor countries in the world? <https://bit.ly/3IPGyiX>*' to launch the *Internet Poverty Index*. WDL estimates reveal that globally over 1.39 billion people, or around 17.8% of the world population, currently live in Internet poverty. By defining internet affordability, quality, and quantity thresholds, the estimates of global Internet poverty can finally be assessed. *SPEAKERS* *Dr. Homi Kharas*, Co-Founder / Sr. Economic Advisor, World Data Lab *Dr. Katharina Fenz*, Sr. Data Scientist, World Data Lab *Prof. Jesus Crespo Cuaresma*, Vienna University of Economic and Business *Ravi Shankar Chatuverdi*, Director of Research, Digital Planet, Tufts University *Sarah Armstrong*, Executive Director, Internet Society Foundation *MODERATOR* *Shayna Robinson*, Program Officer, Internet Society Foundation *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/internetpoverty <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/internetpoverty>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3IPGyiX <https://bit.ly/3IPGyiX>* *REAL TIME TEXT* (see *ISOC.LIVE <https://isoc.live/15285>*) *TWITTER #internetpoverty <https://bit.ly/internetpoverty> @worlddatalab @ISOC_Foundation @WU_econ @dgtl_planet* *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/internetpoverty <https://archive.org/details/internetpoverty>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/15285/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Call for submissions - 2022 AoIR Dissertation Award
by Michelle, Association of Internet Researchers 31 Mar '22

31 Mar '22

The Association of Internet Researchers calls for submissions for the 2022 AoIR Dissertation Award. To be eligible for the AoIR Dissertation Award, a PhD dissertation in the area of internet research must have been filed in the 2021 calendar year. Nominations (self and other) must be received by 1 May 2022. All methods and disciplines are welcome. Submissions Details: - A nomination letter that explains why the dissertation is deserving of the award - How it contributes to internet research - A PDF copy of the dissertation should be emailed to dissertationaward [at] aoir.org - The graduate or their supervisor must be a member of AoIR (by 1 May 2022) - Self-nominations are permitted - Filed in 2021 (meaning fully defended, all edits complete, filed/published with a 2021 copyright) The recipient of this award will be announced mid-year 2022. In addition to winning a cash prize, the individual will also be invited to present their research during a session at #AoIR2022 in Dublin, November 2022. The committee this year is comprised of Andra Siibak-University of Tartu (Chair), Rafael Grohmann-Unisinos University, Anne Kaun-Södertörn University, John G. Mcnutt-University of Delaware, and Lynete Lusike Mukhongo-Fort Valley State University. For any questions please contact Andra Siibak dissertationaward[at]aoir.org or Tama Leaver prez[at]aoir.org.

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CCDS Presents Sam Jackson, April 7th @ 3:00 PM (ET) - A Hybrid Talk
by Jeff Hemsley 31 Mar '22

31 Mar '22

The Center for Computational and Data Sciences presents Dr. Sam Jackson, Thursday, April 7th at 3:00 PM EST, titled The (Tweet) Storm Is Upon Us: A Look at QAnon on Twitter. This talk is free and open to the public. Please do register for the event using the link below and feel free to forward: https://forms.gle/dZiBCry4a8QB128J8 The (Tweet) Storm Is Upon Us: A Look at QAnon on Twitter Sam Jackson For the past few years, the QAnon conspiracy theory has been a pernicious force in American public life. Many spaces on the internet have been important for the development and spread of the conspiracy theory, including "dark" social media sites like 8chan/8kun and more widely used sites like YouTube and Facebook. Using a novel dataset of more than 100 million tweets related to QAnon collected between July 2018 and the present, this talk will explore patterns and themes present in this activity. This dataset reveals a range of activity from vigorous support for the ideas promoted by "Q" to the most strident opposition and dismissal of those ideas. Along the way, I describe some of the specific methodological challenges that arose in this project. Finally, I note some of the ways that this dataset and the analyses we are performing can inform public conversations about conspiracy theories and "alternative" knowledge communities. Sam Jackson is an assistant professor in the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany, which also houses UAlbany's iSchool. His research focuses on antigovernment extremism in the U.S., conspiracy theories, extremism online, and contentious activity on the internet more broadly. He earned his Ph.D. from the Social Science Doctoral Program in the Maxwell School in 2018; while completing his Ph.D., he was also an affiliate of CCDS and worked on the Illuminating project. His book, Oath Keepers: Patriotism and the Edge of Violence in a Right-Wing Antigovernment Group, was published by Columbia University Press in 2020. Contact Jeff Hemsley (jjhemsle(a)syr.edu<mailto:jjhemsle@syr.edu>) for questions.

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ECREA pre-conference workshop on Visual Politics & Protest
by Suay Melisa Oezkula 31 Mar '22

31 Mar '22

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to share our call for submissions for the ECREA pre-conference workshop on “Visual Politics & Protest - Current Methodological Challenges” (online, 6-7th October 2022). Please be so kind as to share it with anyone you think might be interested and do get in touch in case of questions. Call for submissions: ECREA pre-conference workshop on “Visual Politics & Protest - Current Methodological Challenges” Call for submissions War streaming on Instagram, propaganda in press photography, refugee activism on TikTok? - Recent European crises have shown images and videos as essential tools of communication in politics and protest, a trend mirrored in the increasing use of visuals in research methodologies. Visual data can capture practices of visual, performative or non-verbal communication, text-image relationships, the development of visual formats, notions of aesthetics, as well as underlying meanings of symbols and codes. Extant research has since captured different elements of visual politics and protest, including: social history (e.g. protest photography), political commentary or alignment (e.g. through memes or overlays), social cues in political communication (e.g. GIFs, filters, or emoji), visual activism practices (e.g. culture-jamming, sousveillance video coverage, flesh-witnessing), and visual forms of information documentation and distribution (e.g. infographics). Even so, new creative practices have at times challenged research practices, for example with regards to image authenticity and appropriation in mis- and disinformation campaigns (e.g. deepfakes), platform affordances in new visual formats and spaces (e.g. short videos on TikTok), (mis)interpretation and visual (il)literacy in communications, trust in image data as factual evidence, and opaqueness in the production of visual materials. These critical debates have been particularly contentious in the arena of politics and protest, where visuals have been seen to shape political opinion and discourse, electoral campaigns, war coverage, and Covid-19 data visualisations. In response to these trends, the ECREA Visual Cultures section is inviting submissions to the online pre-conference on “Visual Politics & Protest” with a focus on epistemological and methodological challenges, taking place on 6th and 7th October 2022 (= 2 weeks prior to ECREA 2022). The pre-conference workshop will include a keynote by Dr. Jing Zeng (University of Zurich), a series of lightning talks, a panel discussion (including speakers Dr. Stefania Vicari, Dr. Shana MacDonald, & Dr. Jing Zeng), and hands-on discussion rounds with a specific focus on epistemological challenges in research on visual politics and protest. Topics of interest We are looking for lightning talks on challenges encountered in research on visual politics and/or protest, which will be allocated to thematic panels. Towards encouraging lively discussions, we are not looking for entire paper proposals, but focussed submissions that outline the challenge along with examples (in written, visual, or other creative forms). On a broad level this may include (but is not limited to): - New methodological challenges in visual or multimodal data collection or analysis - Platform- or format-specific challenges in conducting visual research on politics and protest - Methodological approaches for capturing visuality or visual cultures surrounding politics and protest - Challenges in embedding visuals or visuality with textual, audio, or sensory materials - Issues in interpreting and/or quantifying visual data - Emerging approaches to visualising image or video data - Suggestions for the ethical treatment of visuality in politics or protest - Approaches in analysing specific political visual practices and/or phenomena - Epistemological discussions of the role of the visual in politics, protest, or social movements - Theorizing visual issues (example: visibility through aesthetics and visuality) Submissions should ideally either discuss new challenges, present in-depth illustrations/ examples of specific challenges, or introduce new approaches or nuances. Submission Please submit a 200 word description of your challenge in researching visual cultures or materials, along with your contact details on this Google Form link <https://forms.gle/YWAUJK7RDjHvo6Fe8> (200 is the maximum incl. references). Proposals can be submitted until 1st June 2022 at 23.59 CEST. Descriptions should be written in English and contain a summary of the challenge that will be presented, as well as a notion of the reflections or approaches that are taken or recommended. The description may follow a conventional abstract structure, but is not bound to it. We encourage creative, unconventional, and work-in-progress submissions, particularly from early-career scholars. The addition of supplementary visual data such as a poster or data excerpt is optional. The submissions should represent a specific issue or challenge encountered in the participant’s visual research. We are aware that not everyone will be able to use Google services due to regional restrictions or privacy concerns. In those cases we invite participants to submit directly by email vppecrea(a)gmail.com. The email should contain following information: paper title, participant first and last name, country of affiliation, affiliation, career stage, email contact, names of co-authors, a 200-word description of the challenge, 1-2 visual materials (PDF, Word, or jpg) if applicable (this is optional), and indicate if you would like to be considered for the special issue. During the workshop, these challenges should be presented as short presentations (7-10 minutes) in panel groups with an adjoining discussion. These presentations do not need to follow conventional presentation formats (creative and purely visual presentations are encouraged). Please note that multi-author submissions are very much welcome, but due to the short nature of lightning talks we ask that only one person (i.e. the submitting author) presents. Details on the presentation format and full programme will be released in due time. Workshop follow-up Post-workshop, a summary (e.g. in the form of a co-authored “living syllabus on visual politics and protest research'') will be created and circulated amongst the participants and the wider public. Participants will also be invited to join an informal follow-up meeting at ECREA in Aarhus: “visual politics & protest coffee hour”. Participants will have the opportunity to submit their full papers to a special issue in Journal of Digital Social Research (https://www.jdsr.io/) Extended abstracts of 500 words are due 1st December 2022. Interest in submitting to the special issue should be indicated in the submission form. More information on the special issue will follow in due course. Further details The pre-conference workshop is organised by the ECREA Visual Cultures section (see https://visualculturesecrea.wordpress.com/) and will take place online. Links Pre-conference website: https://cutt.ly/visual-politics-ecrea Email contact: vppecrea(a)gmail.com Link to profile of keynote speaker: https://www.ikmz.uzh.ch/en/research/divisions/science-crisis-and-risk-commu… Key dates 2022 1st June: pre-conference submission deadline 15th August: communication of acceptance 6th & 7th October: ECREA pre-conference on Visual Politics & Protest (online) 19th to 22nd October: ECREA general conference 1st December 2022: special issue abstract deadline Pre-conference team Maria Schreiber, University of Salzburg Suay Melisa Özkula, University of Trento Tom Divon, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Danka Ninković Slavnić, University of Belgrade Doron Altaratz, The Hadassah Academic College Hadas Schlussel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Suay M. Oezkula, on behalf of the pre-conference team -- *Suay Melisa **Ö**zkula/**Oezkula* Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow "DIGI-EMP" <https://www.sis.unitn.it/2753/international-experiences-of-digital-empowerm…> - University of Trento Visiting Research Fellow - International Telecommunications Union www.itu.int Recent work: *Özkula, S. M., Reilly, P. J., & Hayes, J. (2022). Easy data, same old platforms? A systematic review of digital activism methodologies. Information, Communication & Society. **https://doi.org/* *10.1080/1369118X.2021.2013918* <https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.2013918> *Özkula**, S. M. (2021). What is digital activism anyway? Social constructions of the “digital” in contemporary activism. Journal of Digital Social Research, 3(3), 60-84. https://doi.org/10.33621/jdsr.v3i3.44 <https://doi.org/10.33621/jdsr.v3i3.44> * *Özkula, S. M. (2021). The problem of history in digital activism: Ideological narratives in digital activism literature. First Monday, 26(8). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v26i8.10597 <https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v26i8.10597>* *Özkula, SM** (20 21). The Unmaking of Collective Action: Changing Organizing Logics in Civil Society Organizations Through Social Media Activism Culture. IJOC, 15(19). https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/15930 <https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/15930>* Office: Room 318 SIS - School of International Studies via Tommaso Gar, 14 I-38122 Trento University of Trento, Italy

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Vienna & online: project presentation & panel discussion "Google, surveillance capitalism, and discrimination – from critique to intervention?"
by astrid mager 31 Mar '22

31 Mar '22

Invitatation to project presentation & panel discussion "Google, surveillance capitalism, and discrimination – from critique to intervention?": 12. April 2022, 17:30 – 20:00h, online and in Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Doktor-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna "Johannessaal"*REGISTRATION FORM <https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/ita/pages/google-surveillance-capitalism-and-disc…> * Google's hegemonial stand, its algorithms, and possible interventions are at the focus of this event. ITA researcher Astrid Mager will present the results of her FWF project and bring together leading search engine researchers to discuss Google critique, regulation, and alternatives. With Google being front and center, search engines have been exposed again and again for not offering objective results. It has been proven that Google placed its own products on valuable “front-page real estate”, and notions such as the “Googlization of everything” underline its hegemonic position. It has a business model based on user profiling dubbed surveillance capitalism. More recently, Google’s algorithms have been found to output biased and discriminatory results. Building on this critique, what interventions are necessary and what are possible alternatives? How has regulation, specifically of Google and surveillant platforms more generally, responded to these developments? What else is to be done about the hegemony of Google, its vast personal data collection, its discriminatory results, and the governance and accountability of engines and other online platforms? Finally, how can we pave the way towards more open, just, and independent search engines and infrastructures in the future? This public event brings together leading search engine scholars to discuss these questions from a European perspective. The evening opens with a talk by Astrid Mager, senior postdoc at the Institute of Technology Assessment (ITA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, presenting the results of her project „Algorithmic Imaginaries“. It is followed by a lively panel discussion with Rosie Graham <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/english/graham-rosie.aspx> (University of Birmingham), Bernhard Rieder <https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/r/i/b.rieder/b.rieder.html> (University of Amsterdam) und Elizabeth Van Couvering <https://www.kau.se/en/researchers/elizabeth-van-couvering> (Karlstad University), moderated by Ov Cristian Norocel <https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/cristian-norocel> (Lund University) and Richard Rogers <https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/r/o/r.a.rogers/r.a.rogers.html> (University of Amsterdam). ** *more information on the program and link to stream here:* https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/ita/detail/event/google-surveillance-capitalism-a… > > _______________________________________________ > EASST's Eurograd mailing list > Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net > Unsubscribe or edit subscription options:http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net > > Meet us viahttps://twitter.com/STSeasst > > Report abuses of this list toEurograd-owner(a)lists.easst.net

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Now accepting Nominations for the 2022 Nancy Baym Book Awards
by Michelle, Association of Internet Researchers 30 Mar '22

30 Mar '22

We are pleased to call for nominations for the Nancy Baym Annual Book Award. This award recognizes the best scholarship of the Association of Internet Researchers, and highlights the breadth of work relating to the social and cultural dimensions of networked media. To be eligible for the award: - The book must be authored or co-authored as a monograph and must explore a single topic (edited collections are not eligible). - All of the book’s authors must be current members of AoIR at the time of submission (May 1, 2022). Memberships may be purchased here <https://members.aoir.org/>. - The book must have been published between January 1 and December 31, 2021. The books will be reviewed by a committee of Robert W. Gehl-Louisiana Tech University (Chair), Nancy Baym-Microsoft Research, Jakob Linaa Jensen-Aarhus University, Jun Liu-University of Copenhagen, Bjorn Nansen-The University of Melbourne, Robert Tynes-Bard College, Arantxa Vizcaino Verdu-University of Huelva, and Weiyu Zhang-National University of Singapore. Each book should be accompanied by an emailed letter of nomination. Self-nominations from AoIR members are welcome. The letter of nomination, which must be written by a current member of AoIR, should outline: How the book contributes to AoIR’s intellectual community. - The book’s unique contributions and overall strengths. - If not a self-nomination, the letter should also include a statement that the nominated author has been contacted prior to its submission and accepts the nomination. - Books submitted without a meaningful nomination letter outlining both the strengths of the book and the book’s contribution to the AoIR community to AoIR will not be eligible. We are happy to accept books in either digital or hard copy. If digital, please send pdf to bookaward [at] aoir.org or contact for individual email addresses. Additional nomination details available here: https://aoir.org/2022bookaward/

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4S 2022 Open Panel Call for Papers: Learning Infrastructures
by Zach McDowell 30 Mar '22

30 Mar '22

*4S 2022 Open Panel Call for Papers: Learning Infrastructures*December 7-10, Cholula Mexico Conference details: https://www.4sonline.org/ Submissions: https://www.4sonline.org/meeting/accepted-open-panels/ Deadline: April 14 *Learning Infrastructures (Panel 73)*Jeremy Hunsinger, Wilfrid Laurier University Zachary McDowell, University of Illinois at Chicago Learning infrastructures entail multiple meanings. On the one hand, it is the infrastructures that support learning, and on the other, it is also how we learn about infrastructures (writ large). First, exploring the infrastructures of learning helps to develop answers to the question, "what infrastructures do learning require in our contemporary world?" The second inquires how we learn about infrastructures and all that they entail. The tension between these meanings highlights one of central problems of infrastructure studies - Infrastructure studies as a field has the thesis of Invisibility. Infrastructure fades from our vision and memories, and accordingly fades as a research topic as it becomes naturalized and culturalized to become part of the background operations of our everyday life; simply put, infrastructure becomes invisible in everyday life. We all face the duty of making infrastructures visible and concrete to our respective audiences in order to legitimize the infrastructures and our practices surrounding them. For over 20 years, learning infrastructures have transformed dramatically toward a more plural set of practices, methods, systems, and tools. Some more liberatory, and some not - some democratic, others lean authoritarian. The accidental experience of learning infrastructures is that like everything else they are part of the technica/social/hidden/etc. curriculum, and students learn them as much or more than the stated curriculum itself.’ We seek papers that engage questions of learning infrastructures, not only in the meanings that we provide, but across all valences of the topic. Please provide a short abstract around 250 words in proposal for this panel. Submitted through the 4s submission system linked from here: https://www.4sonline.org/meeting/call-for-submissions -------------------- Zachary J. McDowell, PhD www.zachmcdowell.com New Book out: Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality Read online or on Kindle for free <https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003094081/wikipedia…>

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Reminder: CFP for JCMC special issue on Sensor-mediated Communication
by Germaine R Halegoua 30 Mar '22

30 Mar '22

Hi everyone, We're seeking submissions for a special issue of JCMC on Sensor-mediated Communication: Sensing, Mobilities, and Power. The deadline for extended abstracts is April 15. More information can be found here <https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/pages/sensors-cfp> and below. Please forward to anyone who might be interested. I'm happy to answer any questions about the call or theme as well. Thank you! Germaine Sensor-mediated Communication: Sensing, Mobilities, and Power Guest editors: Didem Özkul, Bilkent University (Turkey) - didem.ozkul(a)bilkent.edu.tr Germaine R. Halegoua, University of Michigan (USA) - halegoua(a)umich.edu Lee Humphreys, Cornell University (USA) - lmh13(a)cornell.edu Rowan Wilken, RMIT (Australia) - rowan.wilken(a)rmit.edu.au Sensors are everywhere. They monitor environments and measure a multitude of environmental characteristics such as air quality, temperature, noise, humidity, and radiation (Gabrys, 2019; Starosielski, 2021). They attempt to detect, compute, and communicate context (Beigl, 2005). They are increasingly embedded in urban infrastructures, offices, objects, and homes. With our smartphones and watches, we also carry sensors with us or on us. Many smartphones are equipped with proximity sensors, ambient light sensors, accelerometers, gyroscopes, barometers, biometric sensors, face or fingerprint scanners, heart rate monitors, and sensor receivers like GPS and GNSS. These sensors ‘sense’ and process information and mediate many physical and virtual interactions in public and private spaces. As a result, sensor-mediated communication has become routinely integrated into our daily lives. >From self-tracking apps to self-driving cars, sensing technologies power automated decision-making systems and influence social practices around health and wellness, navigation and transportation, climate and energy use, commerce and consumption, sociality and engagement, and urban governance. Despite the growing prevalence of sensors and citizen-sensing projects (Gabrys, 2016), and the value placed on the data acquired through their use, academic interest in researching their societal, behavioral, and ethical implications is only recently gaining momentum. Even with key contributions that define contemporary societies as “sensor societies” (Andrejevic & Burdon, 2015), and as attributes of the “quantified self” (Lupton, 2016) become foundational to an increasing number of everyday interactions, sensor-mediated communication has remained a relatively under-researched topic. With current crises of mobilities such as climate change, mass migrations and deportations, and pandemics, mobile forms of sensing and sensor-mediated communication and interaction have gained salience as smartphones, Internet of Things devices, and technologies for ‘always-on’, passive data collection are increasingly utilized for controlling and governing communities, societies, and populations. Therefore, we believe that it is time to critically reflect on and empirically analyze sensor-mediated communication practices and their societal and ethical implications. With our special issue on sensor-mediated communication, we open up a critical discussion at the intersections of computer-mediated communication (CMC), critical data studies, surveillance studies, infrastructure studies, and media and communication studies. We invite empirical papers that address emerging debates regarding sensors and sensor-mediated communication, sensor data practices, and their societal implications for measuring, seeing, and knowing bodies, mobilities, environments, and the data they produce. Although the Covid-19 pandemic with its increased uncertainty and anxiety around public health and contagion has created new urgency around sensors and the ways in which they mediate communication and interaction practices, this special issue focuses on issues of ethics, surveillance, technology design and use that may precede the pandemic yet contextualize current discourses and decisions around sensing technologies and sensor data. Our focus includes not only the commonplace use of smart(phone) sensors, such as apps for parents to track their children, or apps for care for the elderly and disabled, but also (and most importantly) the broader uses of sensors and scanners in cities, by platforms and governments, in robotics, drones and satellites, and through other forms of mobile and remote sensing. What does it mean to think about sensing technologies and practices as computer-mediated communication? How can mediated communication foreground investigations of sensing technologies that reveal organizational, cultural and structural mechanisms at work? This might include questions around power, mobilities, and capitalism as sensing and scanning technologies are increasingly embedded in mediated-communication practices of everyday life including personal, wearable, and “smart” devices. In response to these questions, we invite empirical papers that examine practices, processes, power, and ethics as they relate to sensors and sensor-mediated communication and interaction. Multidisciplinary papers and papers from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives are encouraged but must focus on sensors and their societal implications from a computer-mediated communication perspective. Articles for this special issue are expected to contribute to and extend existing CMC debates through a focus on critical questions related to CMC and how our field can examine the impacts and roles of communication technologies and mediated-communication through various aspects of sensors and scanners, i.e. sensor-mediated communication. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication only publishes original research articles and meta-analyses of prior research. Therefore, all submissions are required to have a section that describes and discusses the research process and/or methods. Important dates: - Extended abstracts submission (1,500 words): 15 April 2022 - Notification: 15 May 2022 - Full papers submission (maximum 9,000 words): 31 September 2022 - Final acceptance: January 2023 - Provisional publication: March 2023 Guidelines: Please submit an extended abstract of no more than 1,500 words (including references) that states the paper’s main argument, methods, and scholarly contribution. The abstract should clearly explain how the full submission will contribute to the aims of this special issue. Please email extended abstracts to didem.ozkul(a)bilkent.edu.tr with cc to all other editors: halegoua(a)umich.edu, lmh13(a)cornell.edu, rowan.wilken(a)rmit.edu.au by 15 April 2022. Abstracts should be accompanied by a short biography for each author (approx. 200 words). Positively reviewed abstracts (notification by 15 May 2022) will be invited to submit full papers by 31 September 2022. All manuscripts must be submitted online through MANUSCRIPT CENTRAL <https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jcmc> ( https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jcmc) Invited submissions will undergo a blind peer-review process following the usual procedures of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. The special issue will be published March 2023. Please note that manuscripts must conform to the guidelines for Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. Please see Author Instructions for more information: https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/pages/General_Instructions. In case of further questions, please contact the guest editors. References: Andrejevic, M. & Burdon, M. (2015). Defining the Sensor Society. Television & New Media. 16(1), 19-36. Beigl, M. (2005). Ubiquitous computing: Computation embedded in the world. In G. Flachbart & P. Weibel (Eds.), Disappearing Architecture: From Real to Virtual to Quantum (pp. 52-59). Basel: Birkhauser. Gabrys, J. (2016). Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. Gabrys, J. (2019). How to Do Things with Sensors. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. Lupton, D. (2016). The Quantified Self. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. Starosielski, N. (2021). Media Hot & Cold. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. -- Germaine R. Halegoua (she/her) Associate Professor University of Michigan

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WEBCAST MAR 30: ISOC Namibia Status of Online Violence against Women in Namibia Report Launch Webinar
by Joly MacFie 30 Mar '22

30 Mar '22

This has just started. ISOC Live posted: "On Wednesday 30 March 2022 at 15:00-16:30 CAT (13:00-14:30 UTC) the Internet Society Namibia Chapter will host a webinar to launch a report 'Status of Online Violence against Women in Namibia'. This follows a 6 months campaign and research programme in 20" [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/namovaw>On *Wednesday 30 March 2022* at *15:00-16:30 CAT* (13:00-14:30 UTC) the *Internet Society Namibia Chapter <https://isocnamibia.org/>* will host a webinar to launch a report '*Status of Online Violence against Women in Namibia <https://bit.ly/3NnH4be>*'. This follows a 6 months campaign and research programme in 2021, supported by the *Internet Society Foundation <https://www.isocfoundation.org/>* and the *CIPESA Africa Digital Rights Fund <https://cipesa.org/the-africa-digital-rights-fund-english>*. *SPEAKERS* *Juliet Nanfuka*, Research & Communications, CIPESA *Dr. Gloria Iyawa*, Chair on Gender, Namibia UNESCO *Elizabeth U. Kamutuezu*, Director of ICT Policy, MICT *Jemima Beukes*, Deputy SG, Namibia Media Union *Linda Baumann*, Namibia Diverse Women Association *Emsie Erastus*, Research Consultant *MODERATOR* *Ngari Tjejamba*, Program Manager, Edulution *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/namovaw <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/namovaw>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3NnH4be <https://bit.ly/3NnH4be>* *REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3Lur6uu <https://bit.ly/3Lur6uu>* *TWITTER #EndOnlineViolence #EndOVAW <https://bit.ly/3JYdXJB> @ISOCNamibia @ISOC_Foundation @cipesaug @MICTNamibia #AfricaDigitalRightsFund* *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/namovaw <https://archive.org/details/namovaw>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/15290/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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