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Call For Papers and Talks - Mediate 2022, ICWSM Workshop -- Misinformation: new directions in automation, real-world applications, and interventions.
by Elena Kochkina 13 Mar '22

13 Mar '22

Dear Colleagues, Mediate 2022<https://digitalmediasig.github.io/Mediate2022/>: News Media and Computational Journalism Workshop, taking place as part of ICWSM 2022<https://www.icwsm.org/2022/index.html> on Jun 6th 2022 (hybrid: in-person and online), invites submissions of technical papers and talk proposals. Mediate is an annual interdisciplinary workshop that brings together media practitioners and academics to discuss pressing challenges and opportunities in today’s media sphere. It is organised by The Alan Turing Institute’s special interest group Media in the Digital Age<https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/interest-groups/media-digital-age>. This year’s invited speakers include Philip Resnik, Heidi J Larson and Ethan Porter. This year's theme is: Misinformation: new directions in automation, real-world applications, and interventions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * New directions in verification automation: novel automated and human-in-the-loop methods for rumour detection/verification, fact-checking, stance classification and novel relevant tasks. Submitted papers should describe how their advantages would lead to being adopted in practice by journalists and the public, e.g. improved generalisability, ability to provide explanations, reduced bias, etc. * Real-world applications of automated methods: success stories (e.g., trending news/events detection), challenges (e.g., misinformation detection), partial solutions to known challenges (e.g., interpretable models). * Interventions: effective interventions to prevent the spread of false claims, automated and semi-automated content moderation, interdisciplinary discussions on digital governance and democracy. We invite submissions of technical papers and talk proposals: * Technical papers must be up to 4 pages (short papers) or up to 10 pages (long papers). Technical papers must contain novel, previously-unpublished material related to the topics of the workshop. Accepted papers will be presented orally and will appear in the workshop proceedings. * Talk proposals must be up to 2 pages describing the content of a short talk (the actual length will be determined based on program constraints). Papers must adhere to the ICWSM guidelines<https://www.icwsm.org/2022/index.html#guidelines> and be submitted through EasyChair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mediate2022>. You can contact the organizers (details below) for questions related to the submission or participation. Important Dates (all deadlines are 23:59, AoE<https://time.is/Anywhere_on_Earth>): * March 27, 2022: Submission deadline * April 10, 2022: Authors notification * April 17, 2022: Camera ready deadline More details can be found here: https://digitalmediasig.github.io/Mediate2022<https://digitalmediasig.github.io/Mediate2022/> For updates, sign up to the Media in the Digital Age Interest Group’s mailing list via this form<https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=p_SVQ1XklU-Knx-672OE-fR…> Follow us on Twitter: @MediateWorkshop<https://twitter.com/MediateWorkshop>, @DigitalMediaSIG<https://twitter.com/DigitalMediaSIG> Any questions, please reach out :) With best wishes, Elena Kochkina, The Alan Turing Institute/QMUL, ekochkina(a)turing.ac.uk<mailto:ekochkina@turing.ac.uk> Panayiotis Smeros, EPFL, panayiotis.smeros(a)epfl.ch<mailto:panayiotis.smeros@epfl.ch> Jérémie Rappaz, EPFL, jeremie.rappaz(a)epfl.ch<mailto:jeremie.rappaz@epfl.ch> Marya Bazzi, The Alan Turing Institute/Warwick, mbazzi(a)turing.ac.uk<mailto:mbazzi@turing.ac.uk> Maria Liakata, The Alan Turing Institute/QMUL, mliakata(a)turing.ac.uk<mailto:mliakata@turing.ac.uk> Arkaitz Zubiaga, QMUL, a.zubiaga(a)qmul.ac.uk<mailto:a.zubiaga@qmul.ac.uk>

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CFP MEA 2022 - convention July 7-10 in Rio!
by Adriana Braga 13 Mar '22

13 Mar '22

The Twenty-Thrird Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (in person) July 7-10, 2022 FINAL EXTENSION THE MEDIA ECOLOGY ASSOCIATION (MEA) invites the submission of abstracts of papers and proposals for panels for presentation at its 23rd Annual Convention, which will be held from July 7–10, 2022 at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The deadline for submission has been extended to March 25, 2022. This will be the final extension for this call. The annual meeting of the MEA provides an opportunity for our community of scholars, educators, professionals and practioners to exchange experiences and ideas in a friendly environment. Participants at MEA conventions address a wide diversity of topics in our programs, and we encourage submissions that explore media ecological approaches from any number of different disciplines and fields of knowledge and social practice. We are interested in papers, thematic panels, roundtable discussion panels, creative projects, performance sessions, and other proposals of interest to media ecologists. While we are open to explorations on any topic of interest to media ecologists, we also include a convention theme with the aim of generating further discussion and probes involving multiple perspectives. Submissions do not have to address the theme, but are invited to do so. The theme of the 2022 convention is Celebration. A long period of turmoil has seen social division, self-isolation and perpetual stress become our daily norm. Through the various conflicts and trials, it has been the strength of our relationships and associations that have sustained us. Resilience is more than an individual trait. It is the product of self-care and mutual concern. The so-called “good life” includes our ability to individually and collectively endure great challenges, while reminding ourselves that joy must not be inhibited by the obstacles in our way. We continue to celebrate our accomplishments and our associations as an affirmative enterprise in making and remaking this human condition. The annual Media Ecology Association Convention helps our community mark these important milestones, celebrating our hard work and our commitment to one another. This is true in any year, but in particular in these times it is vital to raise up this sensibility and center it as a cause in our 2022 proceedings. General topics of interest related to the convention theme (but not limited to): - Community Life - Rituals of Celebration and Affirmation - Technology as a Connecting Agent - Art and the Expression of Joy - Education and the Learning of Resilience - Surviving the Maelstrom…and Thriving - Positive Psychology and Media Ecology - Science and Sanity: General Semantics GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION Please submit paper and panel proposals, in English or Portuguese, by March 25, 2022 to MEA2022Convention(a)gmail.com. A maximum of two submissions per author will be accepted. Authors who wish their papers to be considered for the Top Paper or Top Student Paper award must indicate this on their submission(s). Submission Guidelines for paper and panel proposals: - Include title(s), abstract(s) (maximum 250 words), and contact information for each participant. - Outline, as relevant, how your paper or panel will fit with the convention theme. - Authors with papers submitted as part of a panel proposal or as a paper proposal who wish to be considered for Top Paper or Top Student Paper must send the completed manuscript to the convention planners by May 6, 2022. Submission guidelines for manuscripts eligible for MEA award submissions: - Manuscripts should be 4,000–6,000 words (approximately 15 to 25 double-spaced pages) - Include a cover page with your institutional affiliation and other contact information. - Include an abstract (maximum 150 words). The Media Ecology Association will award a limited number of competitive travel grants to students presenting at the 2022 convention. Student travel grant applications are due by May 6, 2022.

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CFP Mediating Scale - conference June 2022
by Magdalena Krysztoforska 13 Mar '22

13 Mar '22

*Mediating Scale: Online Conference 16-18th June 2022* *Deadline for extended abstracts:* Sunday April 3rd 2022 *Conference website: *www.mediatingscale.com *Confirmed keynote speakers:* Prof Benjamin Bratton (University of California, San Diego) Dr Joshua DiCaglio (Texas A&M University) Dr Zachary Horton (University of Pittsburgh) Dr Bogna Konior (NYU Shanghai) Dr Thomas Moynihan (University of Oxford) Laura Tripaldi (University of Milano-Bicocca) The problem of scale has historically been discussed primarily within the confines of specific disciplinary contexts (biology, geography, mathematics, etc.), however it is increasingly emerging as a transdisciplinary concern. Similarly to the ways in which contemporary problems exceed disciplinary boundaries, and require heterogeneous approaches in order to be productively understood, the future orientation of our strategies for addressing those problems must engage with the full scalar spectrum of our planetary existence. Global crises such as pandemics or climate change disturb the human comfort of the mesoscale and require us to grapple with the underlying material reality, including molecular as well as global processes. The COVID-19 pandemic proved that the biological, chemical, and epidemiological reality is indifferent to the cultural and political narratives conjectured by the human vectors of transmission. A post-pandemic world needs to learn the lessons from this ‘revenge of the real’ (Bratton, 2021) and recognise the complexity of the world which cannot be reduced to myopic projections and illusions. As global society is affected by ‘mega processes’, our orientation towards the future should be guided by reason, and a planetary politics which exceeds the logics of the nation-state and includes the whole physical universe (Mbembe, 2019). In order to access different scalar perspectives, humans have always constructed mediating devices. Instruments such as the telescope or the microscope provided an insight into the scale of reality beyond human visual perception, and demonstrated that ‘the invisible makes up a continuum of reality with the visible’ (Blumenberg, 1987, p. 618). More recent examples of scalar media include the James Webb Space Telescope, mediating the spatial and temporal scale of the universe through an analysis of infrared light, as well as potentially shedding light on the local condition of far-off planets. It contributes to a wider process in which scientists use numerical data from telescopes and satellites to help imagine worlds and places which can be made sense of on a human scale (Messeri, 2016). Computational technologies also help us conceptualise some of the most pressing scalar problems. Inequalities related to labour relations and the distribution of resources can be traced through the mineral materialities of media devices and the cartographies of electronic waste (Parikka, 2015), whilst the concept of ‘climate change’ is an epistemological accomplishment of planetary-scale computation (Bratton, 2019). The history of media and technologies is a history of evolving modes and scales of perception and knowledge, and cultural texts such as *Powers of Ten, Fantastic Voyage, Alice in Wonderland*, and *Gulliver’s Travels* have been discussed as motivating thinking about scale (Horton, 2013, 2020; DiCaglio, 2020, 2021). Recent scholarship has also emphasized the necessity for developing a theory and a vocabulary of scale itself, foregrounding the ongoing negotiations between scalar alterity and scalar access (Horton, 2020), and placing scale ‘at the intersection of a transformation of the world and a transformation of ourselves’ (DiCaglio, 2021, p. 9). With this conference, our ambition is to map the broad spectrum of frameworks and attitudes towards scale, reflecting on how scalar thinking should orient our visions towards the future. We are interested in the role of scalar media, technologies, scientific theories, models and concepts in confronting the scalar disjunction between human sensory and cognitive capacities, and the scale of reality independent of our perception. We believe these questions are crucial to developing the multi-scalar thinking required to address some of the most urgent global issues including automation, planetary governance, or the climate crisis. This conference will therefore explore ways of framing the problem of mediating scale, and the stakes involved in addressing epistemological barriers to facing contemporary problems at an appropriate scale. We welcome contributions from across disciplines whose work is relevant to the question of mediating scale. Topics may include, but are not limited to: - approaches to scale in media studies - history and archaeology of scalar media - politics of scale in visual cultures - scale and political tactics (including local vs global organising) - planetary politics and governance - existential risks, including climate change - the science and politics of geoengineering - scientific models and model-world relations - reductionism, antireductionism, and complexity theory - theories of scale, rhetoric of scale - timescales, geologic time, deep time, longtermism *Submission guidelines:* We are inviting submissions for 30-minute talks in English that address the conference theme. Please send an extended abstract of 600-900 words and a short biography to mediatingscale(a)gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is Sunday April 3rd 2022. Responses will be sent out in mid-April. *Conference details:* This online conference will be free to attend but registration will be required. The conference will be streamed live with recordings of the keynote presentations available afterwards on YouTube. For more information, please see the conference website: www.mediatingscale.com and if you have any questions, please email mediatingscale(a)gmail.com Organised by Dr Oliver Kenny (Institute of Communication Studies (ISTC), Université Catholique de Lille) and Magdalena Krysztoforska (University of Nottingham). The event is hosted and funded by the Institute of Communication Studies (ISTC), Université Catholique de Lille. *Bibliography: * Blumenberg, H. (1987). *The Genesis of the Copernican World*. MIT Press. Bratton, B. H. (2019). *The Terraforming*. Strelka Press. Bratton, B. H. (2021). *The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic World*. Verso. DiCaglio, J. (2020). Scale Tricks and God Tricks, or The Power of Scale in* Powers of Ten*. *Configurations*, 28(4), 459–490. DiCaglio, J. (2021). *Scale Theory: A Nondisciplinary Inquiry*. University of Minnesota Press. Horton, Z. (2013). Collapsing Scale: Nanotechnology and Geoengineering as Speculative Media. In K. Konrad, C. Coenen, A. Dijkstra, C. Milburn, & H. van Lente (Eds.), *Shaping Emerging Technologies: Governance, Innovation, Discourse* (pp. 203–218). IOS Press / AKA. Horton, Z. (2020). *The Cosmic Zoom: Scale, Knowledge, and Mediation*. The University of Chicago Press. Mbembe, A. (2019). Bodies as Borders. *From the European South: A Transdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Studies*, 4, 5–18. Messeri, L. (2016). *Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds*. Duke University Press. Parikka, J. (2015). *A Geology of Media*. University of Minnesota Press. *Magdalena Krysztoforska* (she/her) *AHRC/M4C Doctoral Candidate in Critical Theory* Dept. of Cultures, Media & Visual Studies Room B57, Trent Building University of Nottingham University Park Nottingham, NG7 2RD <http://vpp.midlands3cities.ac.uk/x/g50KAQ> https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/student_profile/magdalena-krysztoforska/

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PhD Scholarship on Datafication in South/Southeast Asia/Australia
by Preeti Raghunath 13 Mar '22

13 Mar '22

Dear all, *With apologies for cross-posting* A multidisciplinary team across Monash University campuses in Malaysia and Australia, comprising researchers working at the intersections of anthropology/ethnography, communication governance/policy, health and marginality, and feminist/anti-race Science and Technology Studies would like to advertise the following PhD position at the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University, Malaysia, with a year to be spent at our campus in Australia: Are you interested in studying how human lives are being datafied, across levels and sectors? How do we make sense of technological advances from a critical perspective? What methods can we deploy to study datafication? And finally, what does a datafying lifeworld mean for human security and the marginalised? The right candidate will be fully funded to study Datafication in South/Southeast Asia or Australia, at the intersection of Communication Technologies and Society, with a multidisciplinary team spread across Monash University campuses in Malaysia and Australia. For more information on the GEMS PhD scholarship and application, see: https://www.monash.edu.my/research/support-and-scholarships/gems-scholarship Best, Preeti -- Preeti Raghunath, PhD Lecturer (Communication and Media Studies) Communication, Arts and Media (CAM) Room 2-6-04, Level 6, Building 2 School of Arts and Social Sciences Monash University, Bandar Sunway 47500, Selangor, Malaysia Website: www.preetiraghunath.com Twitter: @preetiraghunath

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resources for Ukrainian scholars in need
by Ilana Gershon 12 Mar '22

12 Mar '22

Dear Colleagues, Randi Irwin and I have compiled a list of resources for Ukrainian (and Russian) scholars who are being affected by the war, and need financial support. You can find the list here: https://politicalandlegalanthro.org/2022/03/11/resources-for-ukrainian-scho… Please let me know if you know of resources that should be on this list -- email me at igershon(a)indiana.edu. Best, Ilana

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Re: [Air-L] Suggested materials for Computers and Society course
by Michela Ornati 12 Mar '22

12 Mar '22

Hi Douglas, You may want to look into the research group of the Unesco Chair at USI, led by Prof. Lorenzo Cantoni. Their latest publication: Handbook on Heritage, Sustainable Tourism and Digital Media Silvia de Ascaniis and Lorenzo Cantoni, eds. https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781788970075/9781788970075.xml Best Michela Ornati - MBA, MA Professional Lecturer at University of Applied Sciences and Arts (SUPSI) Lugano Ph.D. Student ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Università della Svizzera italiana Institute of Digital Technologies for Communication (ITDxC) ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Ofc. 130 Via Giuseppe Buffi, 13 CH - 6904 Lugano Phone: +41 058 6664649 Cell.: +41 79 7064230 Email: michela.ornati(a)usi.ch<mailto:michela.ornati@usi.ch> _______________________ Recent publications (see ORCID<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0641-6950>): • Guest blogpost (2021), University College London IN-Touch Digital Communication<https://in-touch-digital.com/2021/02/24/lost-in-delivery-touch-fashions-inc…> • Ornati M.A. True Feel: Re-Embodying the Touch Sense in the Digital Fashion Experience. In: Cinque, T. and Vincent, J.B. (eds.) Materializing Digital Futures: Touch, Movement, Sound and Vision<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/materializing-digital-futures-9781501361258/>. Bloomsbury, London (2022) • Ornati M., (2021). Touch in Text. The Communication of Tactility in Fashion E-Commerce Garment Descriptions<https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-81321-5_3> In: Sàdaba, Cominelli, Kalbaska & Cantoni (eds). FACTUM21 Proceedings. Springer, Cham. On 11 Mar 2022, at 22:59, air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org> wrote: Send Air-L mailing list submissions to air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org You can reach the person managing the list at air-l-owner(a)listserv.aoir.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Air-L digest..." Today's Topics: 1. postdoc at Michigan, ICPSR re: social media data archiving (Libby Hemphill) 2. Online Study - iScience Team of the University of Konstanz (Isabel Helm) 3. Suggested materials for Computers and Society course for Computer Science majors? (Douglas Zytko) 4. Reminder: CCDS Presents Ryan Scrivens, March 18th at Noon (Jeff Hemsley) 5. CFP: "Cybercrime" at the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (Robert W Gehl) 6. Book Announcement: Social Engineering (MIT Press) (Robert W Gehl) 7. Re: Multistakeholder Imposition of Internet Sanctions (Joly MacFie) 8. WEBCAST: FCC Broadband Labels Hearing 1 ? Transparency (Joly MacFie) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 18:57:57 -0500 From: Libby Hemphill <libbyh(a)umich.edu> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] postdoc at Michigan, ICPSR re: social media data archiving Message-ID: <CABM-KiizsCjaAyRQXBe33O=_f6uMRz6DfG5KA1gXEGuXaLmB-g(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hi all, Please forward widely and encourage people you know to apply! https://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/213553/postdoctoral-research-fellow The University of Michigan School of Information seeks to hire a postdoctoral scholar to conduct research in the area of social media data archiving. This is a one-year appointment renewable up to two years, pending continued funding, availability of work, and satisfactory job performance. This position is estimated to begin in late summer/early fall, with some flexibility to start date depending on the selected candidate. This scholar will work with Dr. Libby Hemphill <http://www.libbyh.com/> at the University of Michigan School of Information and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) on research projects related to technical infrastructure, collection development policies, and data provision policies for archives of social media data. Results from this project will inform the development of the Social Media Archive (SOMAR) at ICPSR. SOMAR will become the first data resource of its kind?making social media data accessible to researchers who lack the technical or computing resources to capture data independently and enabling researchers to share and access data from social media while respecting platforms? terms of service and users? privacy expectations. In this project, we will leverage existing social media datasets at MIDAS <https://midas.umich.edu/> and ICPSR <http://icpsr.umich.edu/> to experiment with archival infrastructures that make social media data findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR). We will also explore other principles for data archives, such as the Feminist Data Manifest-No <https://www.manifestno.com/> and The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance <https://www.gida-global.org/care>, that are informed by feminist and Indigenous research and scholars. The postdoc will work with Hemphill, her students, and staff at ICPSR to develop collection development policies, survey social media users and researchers to understand participant perceptions and preferences, and conduct field experiments to evaluate data indexing and access systems. Key work elements include: collecting and managing large datasets from social media platforms; writing academic papers and grant proposals; and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams on research projects. The candidate may be responsible for supervising doctoral, masters, and undergraduate students in various research activities. Required Qualifications* - A PhD in information, library or archival science, computational social science, or a related discipline - Expertise in using Python for collecting and analyzing data from social media - Experience generating metadata and documentation for research data and code Desired Qualifications* - Experience working alongside, partnering with, and building strong connections with research team members; - Experience conducting independent and collaborative research; - Experience writing and presenting research in professional settings, such as conferences and academic journals; - Administrative skills like scheduling, prompt email communications with all partners, routine check-ins, keeping team members and partners up to date on progress, monitoring and shifting project priorities as needed; - Experience with one or more of the following: ElasticSearch, Spark, Hadoop, SOLR Take care, Libby -- Libby Hemphill pronouns: she/her/hers Director, Resource Center for Minority Data <http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/RCMD>, ICPSR <http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/> Research Associate Professor, Institute for Social Research <http://home.isr.umich.edu/> Associate Director, Center for Social Media Responsibility <http://csmr.umich.edu/> Associate Professor, School of Information <https://www.si.umich.edu/> University of Michigan ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 12:08:49 +0100 From: "Isabel Helm" <isabel.helm(a)uni-konstanz.de> To: Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Online Study - iScience Team of the University of Konstanz Message-ID: <149f-622b2e00-23-2e9cee80@159075541> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi everyone! The iScience team of the University of Konstanz is currently conducting an online survey. We would really appreciate if you could spend a few minutes to answer the survey. In this study we want to investigate human behavior in leisure situations. It only takes about 5-10 minutes. Here is the link to the study: http://wextor.eu:8080/iSciencecore/RepMA/index.html?so=airl Thank you so much! And have a nice weekend. Isabel Helm ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 08:29:01 -0500 From: Douglas Zytko <zytko(a)oakland.edu> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Suggested materials for Computers and Society course for Computer Science majors? Message-ID: <CAFsmzTrACtkfF6DN3rvoUXynavXA8WJ7=S9PoV+DFp+d89uyeg(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hello AoIR community, Our Computer Science and Engineering department at Oakland University is working on a new Computers and Society course and we're really excited about bringing this type of course to Computer Science students. *We?re looking for suggested course readings/materials* that broadly fit this course objective: ?knowledge of the role that different cultural heritages (past and present) play in forming values in another part of the world, enabling the student to function in a global context.? Anything come to mind? We?ve also been constructing a list of topics that the course should cover; we welcome suggestions for additional topics or readings/materials/activities related to any of them that would be accessible to computer science students who have never considered this side of computing before. Explore how computers can play a role in ? bringing different cultural heritages to others. ? preserving and communicating cultural heritages. ? preserving and promoting low resource languages. ? preserving and promoting music and performance. ? creating exhibits and 3D models of museum artifacts. -- Douglas Zytko, PhD Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interaction Director of Oakland HCI Lab Oakland University Department of Computer Science and Engineering dougzytko.com Engineering Center 544 115 Library Drive, <https://maps.google.com/?q=115+Library+Drive,%C2%A0+Rochester,+MI+48309&ent…> Rochester, MI 48309 <https://maps.google.com/?q=115+Library+Drive,%C2%A0+Rochester,+MI+48309&ent…> ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 14:34:49 +0000 From: Jeff Hemsley <jjhemsle(a)syr.edu> To: List Aoir <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org>, "FACADJUN(a)LISTSERV.SYR.EDU" <FACADJUN(a)LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>, "PHD-DPS(a)LISTSERV.SYR.EDU" <PHD-DPS(a)LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> Subject: [Air-L] Reminder: CCDS Presents Ryan Scrivens, March 18th at Noon Message-ID: <CH0PR01MB71550EE3F847DB064655AF63C20C9(a)CH0PR01MB7155.prod.exchangelabs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Just a reminder, please register (if you haven't) using the link below for Dr. Ryan Scrivens virtual talk titled Examining Right-Wing Extremist Posting Behaviors Online with Machine Learning. From: Jeff Hemsley Sent: Thursday, March 3, 2022 12:02 PM To: List Aoir <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org>; FACADJUN(a)LISTSERV.SYR.EDU; PHD-DPS(a)LISTSERV.SYR.EDU Subject: CCDS Presents Ryan Scrivens, March 18th at Noon The Center for Computational and Data Sciences presents Dr. Ryan Scrivens, Friday, March 18th 12:00-1:00 PM EST, titled Examining Right-Wing Extremist Posting Behaviors Online with Machine Learning. 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/wvZMTCpTZjYYsHsLA Examining Right-Wing Extremist Posting Behaviors Online with Machine Learning Despite the ongoing need for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to develop advanced information technologies, machine learning algorithms, and risk assessment tools to identify and assess the online activities of violent right-wing extremists prior to their engagement in violence offline, little is empirically known about their online behaviors generally or differences in their posting behaviors compared to non-violent extremists who share similar ideological beliefs particularly. In this presentation, Ryan Scrivens will discuss his empirical research on right-wing extremist posting behaviors and highlight various machine learning techniques to identify behaviors that may inform future risk factor frameworks used by law enforcement and intelligence agencies to identify credible threats online. He will also discuss a novel and unique strategy that he has used to collect online content from violent and non-violent right-wing extremists for large-scale data analyses. He will c onclude with a discussion of future trends in examining right-wing extremist posting behaviors with machine learning. Ryan Scrivens is an Assistant Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. He is also an Associate Director at the International CyberCrime Research Centre at Simon Fraser University in Canada and a Research Fellow at the VOX-Pol Network of Excellence in Ireland. Ryan conducts problem-oriented interdisciplinary research with a focus on terrorists' and extremists' use of the Internet, right-wing terrorism and extremism, and hate crime. Many of his research projects are derived from his engagements with front-line practitioners in law enforcement and intelligence agencies, as well as in social media and tech companies. A hallmark of his research is employing advanced quantitative methods and machine learning tools to better understand right-wing extremists' use of the Internet and associated technologies. He complements this approach by also conducting in-depth interviews with current and former violent extremists, as well as law enforcement and community a ctivists. As a result, he has become a leading international expert on right-wing terrorism and extremism, known among his peers for conducting innovate and cutting-edge empirical research. Ryan has published over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles, books and book chapters, conference proceedings, and policy notes in the past five years. His recent work appears in Terrorism and Political Violence, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, New Media & Society, and Deviant Behavior. He also has book contracts with Oxford University Press and Palgrave. Ryan has presented his findings before practitioners and policymakers at the UK Home Office in London, the Department of Defence in Ottawa, the Swedish Defence Research Agency in Stockholm, and the United Nations in New York and in Vienna. ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 09:13:34 -0600 From: Robert W Gehl <lists(a)robertwgehl.org> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] CFP: "Cybercrime" at the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Message-ID: <a45162a1-032a-aa04-e33e-e50f790780e5(a)robertwgehl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed # CALL FOR PAPERS: CYBERCRIME AT THE 56TH HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES Research of the Internet as a site for communication and networking has focused mostly on legal practices. Recent years have nevertheless seen a significant increase in cybercrime, including illegal commerce being conducted on various platforms. In the public eye, much of it is associated with the non-indexed Dark Web, but research tells us that it is likewise present on many clear web sites and being conducted via numerous social media and instant messaging services. Rarely a day goes by without cybercrime being reported in the media. Examples include online trading in narcotics and other illicit goods and services, the hijacking of individual accounts and organizational systems, extortion, exit scams, fake investments in cryptocurrencies and even blatant information manipulation for financial gain. This minitrack aim is to give insights and develop a theoretical and practical understanding of issues related to cybercrime without excluding any methodological approaches. We welcome conceptual, theoretical, empirical and methodological papers that enrich our understanding of illegal online practices. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Trading in illicit goods and services online * The use of the Dark Web as a marketplace or information sharing environment * Using social media and instant messaging services for illicit trading * Ransomware *Phishing and scamming *Cryptomarkets and cryptocurrencies *Information manipulation for commercial gain *Dark Web deception, risk, security, and privacy * Differences between legal and illegal online trading * Regional differences in cybercrime * Investigative techniques and methods for cybercrimes # SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Author Instructions: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/ Minitrack website: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-55/internet-and-the-digital-economy/#cyberc… # IMPORTANT DATES: * April 15, 2022: Paper submission begins (through HICSS systems: https://hicss-submissions.org/) * June 15, 2022: Paper submission deadline (11:59 pm HST) * August 17,2022: Notification of acceptance/rejection * September 22, 2022: Deadline for authors to submit final manuscript for publication * October 1, 2022: Deadline for at least one author for each paper to register for the conference # MINITRACK CO-CHAIRS: Tuomas Harviainen (Primary Contact) Tampere University tuomas.harviainen(a)tuni.fi Piotr Siuda Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz piotr.siuda(a)ukw.edu.pl Robert W. Gehl Louisiana Tech University rgehl(a)latech.edu Juho Hamari Tampere University juho.hamari(a)tuni.fi ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 09:53:53 -0600 From: Robert W Gehl <lists(a)robertwgehl.org> To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Book Announcement: Social Engineering (MIT Press) Message-ID: <7bfa764b-bcaf-c579-181e-730932883849(a)robertwgehl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed On behalf of my co-author, Sean Lawson, I'm happy to announce that our book Social Engineering: *How Crowdmasters, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls Created a New Form of Manipulative Communication* is now available from MIT Press. It's available as a paperback as well as open access -- see https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/social-engineering for more details. AOIR has influenced my career tremendously, and I think this book demonstrates how. The book starts with what we're all stressed about right now -- disinformation, misinformation, conspiracy theories, and manipulative communication in digital media. We then use critical genealogical methods to help pick apart manipulative communication. We turn to two moments in 20th century history -- early 20th century propaganda and public relations, and mid-20th century phone phreak and hacker con artistry -- to glean concepts. We ultimately argue that today's digital media disinformation is a mix of mass and interpersonal manipulation, what we call "masspersonal social engineering" (MPSE). The book is, for better or worse, focused largely on American media and hacker history. It's the context the two of us know best. That said, we've observed elements of MPSE in the response to the pandemic, Canadian truck convoy protests, and the disinformation campaigns happening during the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, so I believe the book's concepts can travel to other contexts. Regards, Rob -- Robert W. Gehl (he/him/his) F Jay Taylor Endowed Research Chair of Communication, Louisiana Tech Fulbright Scholar www.robertwgehl.org | @robertwgehl PGP Key: https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&fingerprint=on&search=0xE4E0… Sent from our OS on our Internet ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 12:04:08 -0500 From: Joly MacFie <joly(a)punkcast.com> To: aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Multistakeholder Imposition of Internet Sanctions Message-ID: <CAM9VJk204ds8xqcib3NE3oBYZ6gHo8R6tANqeho2kxNmBLPj5g(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" There is discussion on this on the IETF HRPC (Human Rights Protocol Considerations) list https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/hrpc/O9OyvXaJQYYObKNFZ5OMwFeLJqg/ On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 5:18 AM Joly MacFie <joly(a)punkcast.com> wrote: Via Bill Woodcock of PCH on NANOG, a founding statement + technical paper on '*Multistakeholder Imposition of Internet Sanctions*' signed by a bunch of people, including former ISOC trustee John Levine. https://www.pch.net/resources/Papers/Multistakeholder-Imposition-of-Interne… EXCERPT *We believe it is now incumbent upon the Internet community to deliberate and make decisions in the face of humanitarian crises. We may not responsibly dismiss such crises without consideration, nor with consideration only for the self-interest of our community?s own direct constituents; instead, maturity of governance requires that self interests be weighed in the balance with broader moral and societal considerations. This document is the beginning of a global Internet governance conversation about the appropriate scope of sanctions, the feasibility of sanctions within the realm of our collective responsibility, and our moral imperative to minimize detrimental consequences. * *Principles for Internet Infrastructure Governance Sanctions * *We, the undersigned, agree to the following principles: * *? Disconnecting the population of a country from the Internet is a disproportionate and inappropriate sanction, since it hampers their access to the very information that might lead them to withdraw support for acts of war and leaves them with access to only the information their own government chooses to furnish. * *? The effectiveness of sanctions should be evaluated relative to predefined goals. Ineffective sanctions waste effort and willpower and convey neither unity nor conviction. * *? Sanctions should be focused and precise. They should minimize the chance of unintended consequences or collateral damage. Disproportionate or over-broad sanctions risk fundamentally alienating populations. * *? Military and propaganda agencies and their information infrastructure are potential targets of sanctions. * *? The Internet, due to its transnational nature and consensus-driven multistakeholder system of governance, currently does not easily lend itself to the imposition of sanctions in national conflicts. * *? It is inappropriate and counterproductive for governments to attempt to compel Internet governance mechanisms to impose sanctions outside of the community?s multistakeholder decision-making process. * *? There are nonetheless appropriate, effective, and specific sanctions the Internet governance community may wish to consider in its deliberative processes. * *Recommendations * *We believe it is the responsibility of the global Internet governance community to weigh the costs and risks of sanctions against the moral imperatives that call us to action in defense of society, and we must address this governance problem now and in the future. We believe the time is right for the formation of a new, minimal, multistakeholder mechanism, similar in scale to NSP-Sec or Outages, which after due process and consensus would publish sanctioned IP addresses and domain names in the form of public data feeds in standard forms (BGP and RPZ), to be consumed by any organization that chooses to subscribe to the principles and their outcome. * *This process should use clearly documented procedures to assess violations of international norms in an open, multistakeholder, and consensus-driven process, taking into account the principles of non-overreach and effectiveness in making its determinations. This system mirrors existing systems used by network operators to block spam, malware, and DDoS attacks, so it requires no new technology and minimal work to implement. * *We call upon our colleagues to participate in a multistakeholder deliberation using the mechanism outlined above, to decide whether the IP addresses and domain names of the Russian military and its propaganda organs should be sanctioned, and to lay the groundwork for timely decisions of similar gravity and urgency in the future. * Bill writes: *Now we can focus on operationalization. Mailing list, web site, etc. are in the process of being set up.The goal is to have a minimal, lightweight mechanism with BGP and RPZ feeds that networks can voluntarily subscribe to. 99% of the time, they?d be empty. Occasionally, when the Internet community believes that a military or propaganda agency is problematic enough to be worth sanctioning, IPs and domains would be added to the feed. The mechanism is exactly the same as is currently used for blackholing abuse IPs and domains, so doesn?t take anything new on the subscribing network?s side, just one more feed.We?re anticipating that debate over what goes into the list will only happen very occasionally, and the discussion list will be quiet the rest of the time. A lot like NSP-Sec and Outages. And there?ll probably be a lot of overlap with those groups. All are welcome, look for an announcement in a few more days.* -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- - ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 14:01:16 -0500 From: Joly MacFie <joly(a)punkcast.com> To: aoir list <air-l(a)aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] WEBCAST: FCC Broadband Labels Hearing 1 ? Transparency Message-ID: <CAM9VJk2A1gC8E5-z5usNnTPW2snaP+UGG0R3g3Tu_6BtpmS7-g(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" This has just kicked off. The idea is to provide for Internet access the same kind of labeling that is already mandatory on food ingredients and nutrition values. This US initiative is something that, if successful, may be emulated in many countries. Captions and ASL are provided, and presenters include Dr. Margaret Nygren *of the* American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities ISOC Live posted: "On Friday March 11 2022 starting from 1:30pm-3:30pm EST (16:30-20:30 UTC) the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will hold the first of a series of virtual public hearings as a part of its broadband consumer labels rulemaking proceeding" [image: YouTube]On *Friday March 11 2022* starting from *1:30pm-3:30pm EST* (16:30-20:30 UTC) the United States *Federal Communications Commission <https://www.fcc.gov/>* (FCC) will hold the first of a series of virtual public hearings as a part of its *broadband consumer labels rulemaking <http://www.fcc.gov/broadbandlabels>* proceeding. The purpose of these hearing is to assess how consumers evaluate internet service plans and whether current disclosures are sufficient. Specifically, the first hearing will evaluate the effectiveness of the *current transparency rule <https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-acts-empower-broadband-consumers-through-t…>* and provide necessary background for the new label requirement, including whether additional disclosure requirements are necessary. The meeting will stream with open captioning and American Sign Language. Questions can be submitted by sending an email to *BroadbandLabelsHearing(a)fcc.gov <BroadbandLabelsHearing(a)fcc.gov>*. *AGENDA* (EST = UTC-5) *13:30* *Welcoming Remarks and Introductions* *13:45* *Testimony from Grassroots Navigators* *Maribel Martinez*, Consultant, Digital Access to All *Matt Sayre*, Onward Eugene *14:00* *Panel Presentations* *Deb Berlyn* and *Ann Berkowitz* (FCC 2015/2016 Consumer Advisory Committee) *Diana Eisner*, U.S. Telecom *Dr. Margaret Nygren*, American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities *Joshua Stager*, Open Technology Institute, New America Foundation *Greg Guice*, Public Knowledge *Crystal Rhoades*, Commissioner, Nebraska Public Service Commission *15:10 Panel Q&A* *LIVESTREAM https://youtu.be/K3tW_JGWnWQ <https://youtu.be/K3tW_JGWnWQ>* *REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3pUzB9O <https://bit.ly/3pUzB9O>* *TWITTER #broadbandlabels <https://bit.ly/34Dh3U2> #transparency #fcclive @fcc @AnnBerkowitz1 @MMartConsult @msayre @OnwardEugene @DianaLaurenESQ @USTelecom @MaggieNygren1 @_aaidd @joshuastager @OTI @greg_guicepk @publicknowledge Crystal Rhoades @NEB_PSC #captioned* *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/>* *https://www.linkedin.com/in/punkcast/ <https://www.linkedin.com/in/punkcast/>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/fcclabels1 <https://archive.org/details/fcclabels1>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/15228/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- - ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ ------------------------------ End of Air-L Digest, Vol 212, Issue 11 **************************************

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WEBCAST: FCC Broadband Labels Hearing 1 – Transparency
by Joly MacFie 11 Mar '22

11 Mar '22

This has just kicked off. The idea is to provide for Internet access the same kind of labeling that is already mandatory on food ingredients and nutrition values. This US initiative is something that, if successful, may be emulated in many countries. Captions and ASL are provided, and presenters include Dr. Margaret Nygren *of the* American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities ISOC Live posted: "On Friday March 11 2022 starting from 1:30pm-3:30pm EST (16:30-20:30 UTC) the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will hold the first of a series of virtual public hearings as a part of its broadband consumer labels rulemaking proceeding" [image: YouTube]On *Friday March 11 2022* starting from *1:30pm-3:30pm EST* (16:30-20:30 UTC) the United States *Federal Communications Commission <https://www.fcc.gov/>* (FCC) will hold the first of a series of virtual public hearings as a part of its *broadband consumer labels rulemaking <http://www.fcc.gov/broadbandlabels>* proceeding. The purpose of these hearing is to assess how consumers evaluate internet service plans and whether current disclosures are sufficient. Specifically, the first hearing will evaluate the effectiveness of the *current transparency rule <https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-acts-empower-broadband-consumers-through-t…>* and provide necessary background for the new label requirement, including whether additional disclosure requirements are necessary. The meeting will stream with open captioning and American Sign Language. Questions can be submitted by sending an email to *BroadbandLabelsHearing(a)fcc.gov <BroadbandLabelsHearing(a)fcc.gov>*. *AGENDA* (EST = UTC-5) *13:30* *Welcoming Remarks and Introductions* *13:45* *Testimony from Grassroots Navigators* *Maribel Martinez*, Consultant, Digital Access to All *Matt Sayre*, Onward Eugene *14:00* *Panel Presentations* *Deb Berlyn* and *Ann Berkowitz* (FCC 2015/2016 Consumer Advisory Committee) *Diana Eisner*, U.S. Telecom *Dr. Margaret Nygren*, American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities *Joshua Stager*, Open Technology Institute, New America Foundation *Greg Guice*, Public Knowledge *Crystal Rhoades*, Commissioner, Nebraska Public Service Commission *15:10 Panel Q&A* *LIVESTREAM https://youtu.be/K3tW_JGWnWQ <https://youtu.be/K3tW_JGWnWQ>* *REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3pUzB9O <https://bit.ly/3pUzB9O>* *TWITTER #broadbandlabels <https://bit.ly/34Dh3U2> #transparency #fcclive @fcc @AnnBerkowitz1 @MMartConsult @msayre @OnwardEugene @DianaLaurenESQ @USTelecom @MaggieNygren1 @_aaidd @joshuastager @OTI @greg_guicepk @publicknowledge Crystal Rhoades @NEB_PSC #captioned* *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/>* *https://www.linkedin.com/in/punkcast/ <https://www.linkedin.com/in/punkcast/>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/fcclabels1 <https://archive.org/details/fcclabels1>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/15228/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Multistakeholder Imposition of Internet Sanctions
by Joly MacFie 11 Mar '22

11 Mar '22

Via Bill Woodcock of PCH on NANOG, a founding statement + technical paper on '*Multistakeholder Imposition of Internet Sanctions*' signed by a bunch of people, including former ISOC trustee John Levine. https://www.pch.net/resources/Papers/Multistakeholder-Imposition-of-Interne… EXCERPT *We believe it is now incumbent upon the Internet community to deliberate and make decisions in the face of humanitarian crises. We may not responsibly dismiss such crises without consideration, nor with consideration only for the self-interest of our community’s own direct constituents; instead, maturity of governance requires that self interests be weighed in the balance with broader moral and societal considerations. This document is the beginning of a global Internet governance conversation about the appropriate scope of sanctions, the feasibility of sanctions within the realm of our collective responsibility, and our moral imperative to minimize detrimental consequences. * *Principles for Internet Infrastructure Governance Sanctions * *We, the undersigned, agree to the following principles: * *● Disconnecting the population of a country from the Internet is a disproportionate and inappropriate sanction, since it hampers their access to the very information that might lead them to withdraw support for acts of war and leaves them with access to only the information their own government chooses to furnish. * *● The effectiveness of sanctions should be evaluated relative to predefined goals. Ineffective sanctions waste effort and willpower and convey neither unity nor conviction. * *● Sanctions should be focused and precise. They should minimize the chance of unintended consequences or collateral damage. Disproportionate or over-broad sanctions risk fundamentally alienating populations. * *● Military and propaganda agencies and their information infrastructure are potential targets of sanctions. * *● The Internet, due to its transnational nature and consensus-driven multistakeholder system of governance, currently does not easily lend itself to the imposition of sanctions in national conflicts. * *● It is inappropriate and counterproductive for governments to attempt to compel Internet governance mechanisms to impose sanctions outside of the community’s multistakeholder decision-making process. * *● There are nonetheless appropriate, effective, and specific sanctions the Internet governance community may wish to consider in its deliberative processes. * *Recommendations * *We believe it is the responsibility of the global Internet governance community to weigh the costs and risks of sanctions against the moral imperatives that call us to action in defense of society, and we must address this governance problem now and in the future. We believe the time is right for the formation of a new, minimal, multistakeholder mechanism, similar in scale to NSP-Sec or Outages, which after due process and consensus would publish sanctioned IP addresses and domain names in the form of public data feeds in standard forms (BGP and RPZ), to be consumed by any organization that chooses to subscribe to the principles and their outcome. * *This process should use clearly documented procedures to assess violations of international norms in an open, multistakeholder, and consensus-driven process, taking into account the principles of non-overreach and effectiveness in making its determinations. This system mirrors existing systems used by network operators to block spam, malware, and DDoS attacks, so it requires no new technology and minimal work to implement. * *We call upon our colleagues to participate in a multistakeholder deliberation using the mechanism outlined above, to decide whether the IP addresses and domain names of the Russian military and its propaganda organs should be sanctioned, and to lay the groundwork for timely decisions of similar gravity and urgency in the future. * Bill writes: *Now we can focus on operationalization. Mailing list, web site, etc. are in the process of being set up.The goal is to have a minimal, lightweight mechanism with BGP and RPZ feeds that networks can voluntarily subscribe to. 99% of the time, they’d be empty. Occasionally, when the Internet community believes that a military or propaganda agency is problematic enough to be worth sanctioning, IPs and domains would be added to the feed. The mechanism is exactly the same as is currently used for blackholing abuse IPs and domains, so doesn’t take anything new on the subscribing network’s side, just one more feed.We’re anticipating that debate over what goes into the list will only happen very occasionally, and the discussion list will be quiet the rest of the time. A lot like NSP-Sec and Outages. And there’ll probably be a lot of overlap with those groups. All are welcome, look for an announcement in a few more days.* -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Book Announcement: Social Engineering (MIT Press)
by Robert W Gehl 11 Mar '22

11 Mar '22

On behalf of my co-author, Sean Lawson, I'm happy to announce that our book Social Engineering: *How Crowdmasters, Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls Created a New Form of Manipulative Communication* is now available from MIT Press. It's available as a paperback as well as open access -- see https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/social-engineering for more details. AOIR has influenced my career tremendously, and I think this book demonstrates how. The book starts with what we're all stressed about right now -- disinformation, misinformation, conspiracy theories, and manipulative communication in digital media. We then use critical genealogical methods to help pick apart manipulative communication. We turn to two moments in 20th century history -- early 20th century propaganda and public relations, and mid-20th century phone phreak and hacker con artistry -- to glean concepts. We ultimately argue that today's digital media disinformation is a mix of mass and interpersonal manipulation, what we call "masspersonal social engineering" (MPSE). The book is, for better or worse, focused largely on American media and hacker history. It's the context the two of us know best. That said, we've observed elements of MPSE in the response to the pandemic, Canadian truck convoy protests, and the disinformation campaigns happening during the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, so I believe the book's concepts can travel to other contexts. Regards, Rob -- Robert W. Gehl (he/him/his) F Jay Taylor Endowed Research Chair of Communication, Louisiana Tech Fulbright Scholar www.robertwgehl.org | @robertwgehl PGP Key: https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&fingerprint=on&search=0xE4E0… Sent from our OS on our Internet

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CFP: "Cybercrime" at the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
by Robert W Gehl 11 Mar '22

11 Mar '22

# CALL FOR PAPERS: CYBERCRIME AT THE 56TH HAWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES Research of the Internet as a site for communication and networking has focused mostly on legal practices. Recent years have nevertheless seen a significant increase in cybercrime, including illegal commerce being conducted on various platforms. In the public eye, much of it is associated with the non-indexed Dark Web, but research tells us that it is likewise present on many clear web sites and being conducted via numerous social media and instant messaging services. Rarely a day goes by without cybercrime being reported in the media. Examples include online trading in narcotics and other illicit goods and services, the hijacking of individual accounts and organizational systems, extortion, exit scams, fake investments in cryptocurrencies and even blatant information manipulation for financial gain. This minitrack aim is to give insights and develop a theoretical and practical understanding of issues related to cybercrime without excluding any methodological approaches. We welcome conceptual, theoretical, empirical and methodological papers that enrich our understanding of illegal online practices. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Trading in illicit goods and services online * The use of the Dark Web as a marketplace or information sharing environment * Using social media and instant messaging services for illicit trading * Ransomware *Phishing and scamming *Cryptomarkets and cryptocurrencies *Information manipulation for commercial gain *Dark Web deception, risk, security, and privacy * Differences between legal and illegal online trading * Regional differences in cybercrime * Investigative techniques and methods for cybercrimes # SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Author Instructions: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/ Minitrack website: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-55/internet-and-the-digital-economy/#cyberc… # IMPORTANT DATES: * April 15, 2022: Paper submission begins (through HICSS systems: https://hicss-submissions.org/) * June 15, 2022: Paper submission deadline (11:59 pm HST) * August 17,2022: Notification of acceptance/rejection * September 22, 2022: Deadline for authors to submit final manuscript for publication * October 1, 2022: Deadline for at least one author for each paper to register for the conference # MINITRACK CO-CHAIRS: Tuomas Harviainen (Primary Contact) Tampere University tuomas.harviainen(a)tuni.fi Piotr Siuda Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz piotr.siuda(a)ukw.edu.pl Robert W. Gehl Louisiana Tech University rgehl(a)latech.edu Juho Hamari Tampere University juho.hamari(a)tuni.fi

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