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JOB: Contractor – Online speech research project
by Joly MacFie 28 Jan '22

28 Jan '22

Work with Shane Tews... https://www.ilpfoundry.us/job/the-american-enterprise-institute-washington-… The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) seeks a highly motivated, detail-oriented individual to coordinate and manage a research project on policy solutions to online speech regulation. The project will include working groups co-hosted by other DC think tanks, commissioned papers, and other multimedia products. The core issue at hand is the future of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The ideal applicant will thus demonstrate a deep understanding of Section 230, the First Amendment, and the myriad legal and political issues surrounding online speech. This is a part-time position, the hourly commitment varying from 2-15 hours per week. The contractor will report to AEI’s technology policy studies team, which is housed under the institute’s domestic policy department. https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/AEI-Section-230-contractor-j… -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Free Online Symposium: Problematic Pleasures in Digital Games and Play
by Felan Parker 28 Jan '22

28 Jan '22

Dear AOIR colleagues, please check out this great game studies event coming up next month! Cheers, Felan PROBLEMATIC PLEASURES IN DIGITAL GAMES AND PLAY Online Symposium, University of Toronto Friday February 18, 2022 1:00pm – 3:00pm EST FREE REGISTRATION: UofT.me/ProblematicPleasures<http://uoft.me/ProblematicPleasures> Games, of all the popular arts, are perhaps most inextricably bound up in notions of pleasure, but in spite of the primacy of pleasure, the concept is rarely interrogated in game studies. However, in recent years a number of game scholars have applied intersectional lenses to understand pleasure in all its complexity, challenging both canonical theories of play and celebratory marketing rhetoric. Problematic Pleasures in Digital Games and Play brings four prominent international game scholars into dialogue to critically unpack the diverse and not always harmless ways that pleasure moves us in and through play. Pleasure is not all fun and games, and this unique event will generate new insights and directions of inquiry for game studies and the wider humanities. Featuring: Christopher B. Patterson (he/him, University of British Columbia), author of Open World Empire: Race, Erotics, and the Global Rise of Video Games Aaron Trammell (he/him, UC Irvine), author of "Torture, Play, and the Black Experience" and Repairing Play Kishonna L. Gray (she/her, University of Illinois at Chicago), author of Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming Bo Ruberg (they/them, UC Irvine) author of Video Games Have Always Been Queer Organized by Felan Parker, Sara Grimes, and Scott Richmond. This programming is supported by the Jackman Humanities Institute’s Program for the Arts for 2021-2022 on the annual theme of Pleasure. Additional support from St. Michael’s College, the Knowledge Media Design Institute, the Faculty of Information, and the Cinema Studies Institute.

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Call for Paper – The 7th International Workshop on Mobile Data Management, Mining, and Computing on Social Networks (MobiSocial 2022)
by Jui-Yi Tsai 28 Jan '22

28 Jan '22

*Call for Paper – The 7th International Workshop on Mobile Data Management, Mining, and Computing on Social Networks (MobiSocial 2022)* Social network and mining research has advanced rapidly with the prevalence of the online social websites and instant messaging social communications systems. In addition, thanks to the recent advances in deep learning, many novel applications with mobile devices and social networks have been proposed and deployed. These social network systems are usually characterized by complex network structures and abundant contextual information. Moreover, by incorporating the spatial dimension, mobile and location-based social networks are now immersed in people’s everyday life via numerous innovative websites. In addition, mobile social networks can be exploited to foster many interesting applications and analysis, such as recommendations of locations and travel planning of friends, location-based viral marketing, community discovery, group mobility and behavior modeling. The 7th International Workshop on Mobile Data Management, Mining, and Computing on Social Networks (MobiSocial 2022) will serve as a forum for researchers and technologists to discuss the state-of-the-art, present their contributions, and set future directions in data management, machine learning and knowledge mining for mobile social networks. The topics of interest related to this workshop include, but are not limited to: - Mobile sensing - Deep learning for mobile social networks - Blockchain for social networks - Graph mining - Contextual mobile social network analysis - Storing, indexing and querying of graph data - Distributed graph processing - Mobile social interaction and personalized search - Dynamics and evolution patterns of social networks, trend prediction - Analysis and mining of location-based social networks - Classification models and their applications in social recommender systems. - Processing of social media stream - Influence models and their applications in social environment. - Competitive viral marketing - Privacy and security in social networks - Privacy-preserving and precision-aware protocol/algorithm design for epidemic data collection - Mobile and distributed learning (e.g., federated learning, gossip learning, etc.) on Social Internet-o-Things (SIoTs) for epidemic source identification - Advanced AI techniques to support timely interactivity data analysis for Metaverse - Mobile healthcare - Modeling trust and reputation in mobile social networks. - Moving object tracking, indexing and retrieval for social applications - Location and trajectory mining of social data - Opinion mining for location related information - Location privacy, data sharing and security - Mobile and ubiquitous computing for location- based social networks - Cloud computing for location-based social data - Innovative mobile social networking applications - Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research on mobile social networks - Model compression - Cross-layer design for SIoT and contact networks, e.g., cross-layer interaction mining, cross-layer inference, federated multimodal search from interactive SIoT and contact networks, etc. - Epidemiology-aware SIoT alarm to preventing and containing the epidemic spread, and mobility- and social-aware recommendation for trip, activity, and route with social distancing Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: March 25, 2022 Notification of acceptance: April 11, 2022 Camera-ready due: April 22, 2022 Workshop: June 6 (tentative) Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/mobisocial-2022/home

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CSCW SI: Materializing activism
by Karin Hansson 28 Jan '22

28 Jan '22

Finally! The special issue Materializing activism is published: https://link.springer.com/journal/10606/volumes-and-issues/30-5 Thank you, all anonymous reviewers, for your contributions. I think this SI makes an important methodological contribution to the field, and I am very proud to finally have it in place. Best regards, Karin Hansson On the behalf of the guest editors Teresa Cerratto Pargman and Shaowen Bardzell About the SI: Online activism showcases how available digital tools allow social movements to emerge, scale up, and extend globally by fundamentally enabling new forms of power. This special issue brings together eight research articles that engage with the collaborative efforts embedded in various types of activism by studying features such as the socio-technical systems involved; how the activism is organized; relations between traditional and social media; and the complex network of systems, information, people, values, theories, histories, ideologies, and aesthetics that constitutes such activisms. The articles show the spaces in which this activism materializes, and particularly their situation in several intersecting dimensions including motivation, culture, language, and infrastructure. Together, these articles reflect the methodological breadth required to materialize online activism and the need to develop a more nuanced conceptualization of the media ecologies involved. By mapping out how activism is enabled and constrained by human-computer interfaces, this special issue contributes to open up the black box of online activism. KARIN HANSSON ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR Media Technology Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies +46 708 737813 karin.hansson(a)sh.se https://www.sh.se/english/sodertorn-university/contact/researchers/karin-ha… SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY | STOCKHOLM Alfred Nobels Allé 7, Flemingsberg SE- 141 89 Huddinge, Sweden sh.se <http://sh.se>

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Tenure-track position: Department of Communication Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
by Avi Marciano 28 Jan '22

28 Jan '22

Dear community members, The Department of Communication Studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev invites outstanding candidates to apply for a tenure-track position. Hebrew-speaking communication scholars are encouraged to apply. Call for candidates closing date: March 1, 2022 Position starting date: October 1, 2022 To have the application considered, please submit the following documents in the link below: • Cover letter that includes highlights of your profile • Curriculum vitae (CV) • Research statement that outlines main areas of current and future research • Teaching statement that outlines teaching philosophy and areas • Names, affiliations, and contact info of three or four referees (one from the supervisor; at least two additional “independent” referees) • Two writing samples of recent research publications Letters of reference will be requested from applicants selected for interviews. The rank will be determined according to the selected applicant’s experience and achievements. Link to apply: https://bguacademicrecruitment.force.com/Recruiters/VF_BGUPositions?Id=02i5… For more information about the department see: https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/humsos/comm-Studies/Pages/about.aspx *Avi Marciano, PhD* Department of Communication Studies Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Room 587B | Building 72 Tel: +972-8-6428196 | Fax: +972-8-6472855 avimarciano.com

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"Journal of Ecohumanism" and new book series: "Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures"
by NIKOLETA ZAMPAKI 28 Jan '22

28 Jan '22

Dear colleagues, hello. You are welcome to submit your work, propose a special issue, review a book title, propose a book title for review and register for free at the "Journal of Ecohumanism" [https://journals.tplondon.com/ecohumanism/index] Thus, you are welcome to submit a book proposal to our new book series named "Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures" [https://rowman.com/Action/Series/_/LEXPCF] Kindly see the attached file. Many thanks and best regards, Nikoleta --- Nikoleta Zampaki PhD Candidate in Modern Greek Literature Faculty of Philology National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Associate and Managing Editor at the "Journal of Ecohumanism" [https://journals.tplondon.com/ecohumanism/index] Academia.edu: Nikoleta Zampaki Eco-citizenship: [https://ecocitizenship.hypotheses.org/] Series co-Editor of "Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures" at Rowman & Littlefield [https://rowman.com/Action/Series/_/LEXPCF]

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New book published - online book launch today
by Jacob Johanssen 28 Jan '22

28 Jan '22

Event Horizon: Sexuality, Politics, Online Culture, and the Limits of Capitalism Bonni Rambatan and Jacob Johanssen (Zer0 Books) In an age where Silicon Valley continues to dictate what it means to innovate a painless future, knowledge and enjoyment are fertile breeding grounds of political contestation. But it’s not exactly democracy. Instead, we are controlled through tools and platforms that turn us into data for the profit of billionaires. Control has become so playful that we carry it in our pockets, as we continue to crave for likes and followers through expressing shared hatred towards the other in our cute little online circles. Because on the internet today, everything is cute: from selfie filters to gamified metrics on social media, from Tinder matches to racist memes on 4chan. Amidst all this cuteness, hate crimes continue to take more and more lives each day. Through a psychoanalytic interrogation of the intersections of online culture, sexuality, and politics, Bonni Rambatan and Jacob Johanssen explore such horizons at the limits of capitalism. Combining a predominantly Lacanian approach with the thoughts of critical theorists such as Hiroki Azuma, Byung-Chul Han and Mari Matsuda, as well as the work of thinkers and poets Audre Lorde and Richard Siken, Event Horizon examines how capitalist ideology functions in our current moment—and, more importantly, how it breaks down. More information: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/event-horizon-sexua… There is still time to register for the online book launch today: 2pm GMT - 8am CT - 9pm WIT - 10pm SST https://www.eventbrite.com/e/event-horizon-book-launch-tickets-239460050457

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WEBCAST JAN 27-28: Trinidad and Tobago Internet Governance Forum 2022 – The Future of the Internet… What’s Next?
by Joly MacFie 28 Jan '22

28 Jan '22

This is under way. REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3IEpAV2 [image: livestream] <http://https//livestream.com/internetsociety2/ttigf2022>On *Thursday & Friday January 27-28 2022* from *9am-1pm AST* (13:00-17:00 UTC) the sixth *Trinidad and Tobago Internet Governance Forum <https://igf.tt/>* (TTIGF) will be held online. TTIGF 2022 has the theme '*The Future of the Internet… What’s Next?*'. Day 1 has the subthemes '*Building a Digitally Competent Society*' and '*Enhancing Internet Research, Data and Measurement for Development*'. Day 2 has '*The Internet and the Law*' and '*Trinidad and Tobago's Digital Transformation Journey - What's Next?*'. *LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/ttigf2022 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/ttigf2022>* *AGENDA https://igf.tt/ttigf-2022-agenda/ <https://igf.tt/ttigf-2022-agenda/>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/32vrB6t <https://bit.ly/32vrB6t>* (questions can also be asked via YouTube chat - link below) *REAL TIME TEXT* *https://bit.ly/3IEpAV2* <https://bit.ly/3IEpAV2> *TWITTER #TTIGF2022 <http://bit.ly/TTIGF2022> @isoctt* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzKEG9fcJHGm3P2nZpC0viw/live <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzKEG9fcJHGm3P2nZpC0viw/live>* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/ttigf/liveisoc <https://www.facebook.com/ttigf/liveisoc>* *https://www.facebook.com/ttigf <https://www.facebook.com/ttigf>* *https://www.facebook.com/groups/ISOCTT/ <https://www.facebook.com/groups/ISOCTT/>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/ttigf2022 <https://archive.org/details/ttigf2022>* - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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WEBCAST: Encryption Europe Celebrates the Data Privacy Day 2022 With MEP And Members
by Joly MacFie 28 Jan '22

28 Jan '22

Happy Data Privacy Day! Encryption Europe has today issued a statement <https://encryptioneurope.eu/2022/01/28/Encryption-Europe-calls-for-open,-so…> commenting on, among other things, the UK 'No place to Hide' PR campaign against E2EE. REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3IKejm9 [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/encrypteurope-dataprivacyday>On *Friday January 28 2022* from *11:30-12:30 CET* (10:30-11:30 UTC) *Encryption Europe <https://encryptioneurope.eu/>* celebrates *Data Privacy Day <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Privacy_Day>* with a public debate to reconcile seemingly opposite views: privacy and encryption as enablers of security. The panel will aim to remind the community that privacy is not a given and must be defended, and that those who defend privacy do so responsibly. *SPEAKERS* *Patrick Breyer*, Member of the European Parliament (Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, Pirate Party Germany) *Didier Hoareau*, CEO of OnePrivacy *István Lám*, CEO of Tresorit *MODERATOR* *Jean-Christophe Le Toquin*, Coordinator, Encryption Europe *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/encrypteurope-dataprivacyday <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/encrypteurope-dataprivacyday>* *PARTICIPATE: https://bit.ly/3rMmU0M <https://bit.ly/3rMmU0M>* *REAL TIME TEXT (see ISOC.LIVE <https://isoc.live/15115>)* *TWITTER #DataPrivacyDay @EncryptEurope <https://bit.ly/3nYrCHO> @echo_pbreyer @PiratePartyEU István Lám @Tresorit Didier Hoareau @OnePrivacy #GlobalEncryption #MaketheSwitch #EncryptEurope* *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) *https://www.linkedin.com/in/punkcast/ <https://www.linkedin.com/in/punkcast/>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/encrypteurope-dataprivacyday <https://archive.org/details/encrypteurope-dataprivacyday>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/15115/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Interrogating Human-Centered Data Science: Taking Stock of Opportunities and Limitations
by Brooke,SJ 28 Jan '22

28 Jan '22

Call for Participation — Please feel free to distribute Interrogating Human-Centered Data Science: Taking Stock of Opportunities and Limitations A CHI’22 Workshop In the remote workshop, ”Interrogating Human-Centered Data Science: Taking Stock of Opportunities and Limitations,” we will consider efforts, broadly conceived, to humanize data science. We seek participation from individuals who have been involved in reading, writing, teaching, designing, and organizing with an aim to problematize data-intensive technologies and methods, and propose solutions to those problems. For background, details, and a link to the application, please see the workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/hcds-workshop-chi2022/home Submissions should be made by February 28th at 11:59pm Anywhere on Earth (i.e., 23:59 in the latest time zone on the planet). Our intent is to push against the current boundaries of human-centered data science and establish an agenda for furthering this area of work. We plan to use this workshop as a launchpad to develop a slate of journal articles for a special issue or to seed one or more funding proposals for innovative research. The workshop will be held remotely on April 23rd, 2022. To be considered for participation, submit a position paper of 2-3 pages in the ACM primary article template (https://www.acm.org/publications/ taps/word-template-workflow)<https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow> that articulates your own experience and expertise as it relates to human-centered data science, and examines the opportunities and limitations of efforts to intervene in data science. Applicants will be accepted based on a review of their position papers for clarity, relevance to the call for submissions, and uniqueness or originality. Position papers will be circulated and discussed among workshop participants and may be posted to the workshop website with author consent. At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the workshop. All workshop participants must register for both the workshop and at least one day of the 2022 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems<https://chi2022.acm.org/> (remote participation enabled). Information about the registration process and fees will be added to the CHI website when it becomes available from conference organizers. Dr. Siân Brooke (she/her<https://www.lse.ac.uk/economics/about-us/equity-diversity-and-inclusion>) Fellow in Computational Social Science, Department of Methodology London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE Twitter:@SianJMBrooke<https://twitter.com/SianJMBrooke> Homepage: sianbrooke.com<https://www.sianbrooke.co.uk/><https://www.sianbrooke.co.uk/>

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