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CfP CHIIR 2022 Workshop on Building towards Information Interaction and Retrieval Resource Reuse (BIIRRR 2022), March 14 2022
by marijn Koolen 05 Jan '22

05 Jan '22

Third Call for Contributions: BIIRRR 2022 ************************************************************************* CHIIR 2022 Workshop on Building towards Information Interaction and Retrieval Resource Reuse March 14 2022, 9:00-17:00 This workshop is part of the ACM Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR) 2022, taking place 14-18 March 2022 as a *fully virtual conference*. BIIRRR 2022 website: http://biirrr2022.aau.dk CHIIR 2022 website: https://ai.ur.de/chiir2022/home ************************************************************************* The aim of the BIIRRR workshop series is to provide a forum where researchers from the full spectrum of CHIIR interests can come together to develop ideas on improving resource reuse. At the previous BIIRRR workshops, we identified a number of focus areas essential to resource re-use in interactive information retrieval. We distilled these into a manifesto [https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3406522.3446056] published at CHIIR 2021, which highlighted the potential and challenges of research documentation and archiving for future reuse. Any part of a study (research design, research data, research infrastructure) is valuable for reuse at any level of granularity, from reproducing complete studies to single survey or interview questions. What is needed to enable reuse may vary for different methods, for instance, documentation for qualitative methods may require a different format than for quantitative methods, but both can be described in a structured and standardized way. In this context, it is particularly important that any guidelines or standards are flexible, adaptable, and can evolve as the research in the community evolves. The openness of the II&R community must not be restricted and extensive discussions are needed on how to balance standardisation, space for innovation and for aspects that can only be documented to a limited extent. BIIRRR 2022 is the third edition in the series and focuses on developing recommendations for documenting and archiving the wide range of II&R research resources, and to ensure that the documentation standards are relevant and applicable to both the specifics and breadth of the CHIIR community. Towards this end, the workshop has two main goals: - Collect practical experiences with documentation and reuse. We solicit experience and position papers to collect more examples of practical barriers, challenges, and approaches to documenting complex study setups. In an experience paper, authors can further document one of their previous II&R studies and analyze it in terms of the possibilities and challenges for the reuse of their research designs, data and infrastructure. Position papers discuss challenges and proposals in a more abstract manner. - Develop recommendations for research design documentation. Research designs are the first step in documenting research resources. The second goal of the 2022 edition of the BIIRRR workshop is to start discussing and developing recommendations for research design documentation. Our explicit aim is to develop an open proposal that can be used across the full range of study types in the II&R community and that is open to further development. ************************** Paper Contributions ************************** We invite two types of original contributions: experience papers and position papers. In experience papers, authors analyze one of their previous II&R studies in terms of research designs, research data, or research infrastructure in the context of reuse. Authors should not focus their contribution on the outcomes of their described studies, but on their thoughts and considerations in designing, setting up and adapting their studies as well as on efforts to connect their II&R study to previous work by others and aspects that make reuse of earlier work difficult. These experiences are rarely made explicit and the focus of discussion, but are necessary to further the discussion on reuse and sharing in IIR. Any details you think might be relevant for others to understand the choices made are good to have in your experience paper. Position papers describe and/or argue for challenges, benefits, best practices, perspectives on, and strategies for improving resource reuse in IIR. We also invite comments, feedback, and ideas on how to evolve the principles for II&R resources re-use or II&R resources reuse as suggested in the manifesto. The paper contributions will be presented in themed sessions in the morning. The afternoon will then discuss the main ideas and challenges from the morning session in break-out groups. The workshop will conclude with a collaborative writing session aimed at developing an open proposal for documenting research designs that can be used across the full range of study types in the II&R community and that is open to further development All submissions should be in English and should not have been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. However, in the case of experience papers, they may be based on already published experimental II&R studies and expand upon research design descriptions, methodological decision-making, and successes and failures. Papers should be between 4 and 8 pages formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style and submitted via EasyChair ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=biirrr2022) All submissions will be peer reviewed by the Program Committee. Submissions will be published in the workshop proceedings. ********************************* Timetable ***************************** Submission deadline: January 13, 2022 Notification of acceptance: January 27, 2022 Camera-ready deadline: February 11, 2022 Workshop: March 14, 2022 ********************************* Organisers ***************************** Toine Bogers (Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark) Maria Gäde (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany) Mark Hall (Open University, United Kingdom) Marijn Koolen (KNAW Humanities Cluster, Netherlands) Vivien Petras (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany) Paul Thomas (Microsoft Research, Australia) ********************************* Relevant links ***************************** BIIRRR 2022 Workshop homepage: http://biirrr2022.aau.dk Registration for BIIRRR 2022 workshop goes via CHIIR 2022: https://ai.ur.de/chiir2022/register Contact the organizers: biirrr(a)googlegroups.com

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CFP || Global Media and China_Special Issue: Feminist Media Production and Beyond
by Xiao Han 05 Jan '22

05 Jan '22

Dear All, Global Media and China CFP Special Issue: Feminist Media Production and Beyond Guest Editors: Dr. Tracy Ying Zhang (Communication and Media Studies, York University); Dr. Alison Harvey (Communication and Media Studies, York University) Time Schedule: —1 May 2022: abstract proposals (title, 500 words outlining argument, theoretical framework, and methods with short bibliography) Submit to Dr Tracy Ying Zhang (tracyyzh(a)yorku.ca <mailto:tracyyzh@yorku.ca>) and Dr Alison Harvey (alison.harvey(a)glendon.yorku.ca <mailto:alison.harvey@glendon.yorku.ca>) —June 2022: notification of acceptance of accepted abstracts —30 November 2022: full paper submission —December 2022 - March 2023: double-blind peer review —April - June 2023: revision —July - August 2023: second round of double-blind peer review —August 2023: revision —September - December 2023: editorial final review Overview: The underrepresentation of women in media-making, as well as their marginalization and discriminatory practices faced within the working environment have been well-documented across history in traditionally-studied industries ranging from broadcast television (Meehan, 2002, Ball & Bell, 2013) to film (Banks, 2009, Hill, 2016, Reynolds, 1998) to video game development (Consalvo, 2008, Prescott & Bogg, 2011). The obfuscation of women’s participation in cultural, creative, and technical fields, including in assembly and other forms of work typically overlooked in the literature (Nakamura 2011, 2014, Mayer, 2011) cannot be disentangled from the historical association of femininity with consumption and the private, domestic sphere (Kearney, 1998), and the devaluation of women’s production activities (White, 2015). Feminist scholarship of media production activities, both within professional industrial contexts and in spaces beyond this such as new digital economies (Duffy, 2015), have highlighted the role of women in media work as well as the social, technical, economic, and political structures that contribute to the ongoing devaluation of women’s work. This special issue seeks to extend this conversation and open up new horizons for research on feminist media production. At a time where the few high profile women in media making are held up as examples of change when the #MeToo movement and its ripple effects have highlighted ongoing pervasive issues, the moment is ripe for critical, intersectional, and transnational discussions of feminism and media-making. This is all the more pressing given the global fight against workplace-based sexism has waned in light of the exigencies of the Covid-19 pandemic. Paradoxically, within this context and an ever-expanding digital cultural economy, gendered inequality and employment precarity have become even more acute. At a virtual conference hosted by Women in Television and Film Canada in 2021, speakers noted the disproportionate impact of crises like COVID-19 on women and people of color in the media. Evidence shows that women are struggling with not only a shortage of employment opportunities but also challenges related to care responsibilities, mental health, and/or domestic violence (Boserup, McKenney, & Elkbuli, 2020, Bradbury-Jones & Isham, 2020, Power, 2020, Seedat & Rondon, 2021). In tandem with this, scholars have noted how the proliferation of digital platforms offer content creators, including women, new avenues and tools to disseminate their works and connect with new audiences (Lauzen, 2021). This special issue seeks to explore women’s production cultures and practices, the subject-positions they entail, and the labour relations and policies they are entangled with. We seek submissions from scholars in diverse fields to advance interdisciplinary dialogues on feminist media production. We are interested in empirical, theoretical, and historical contributions that address long-standing and emerging questions regarding the relationship between media production, gender, race, labor, embodiment, nationalism, surveillance capitalism, platform politics, neoliberalism, and reactionary politics. Submissions that deploy intersectional feminist, decolonial, and anti-colonial approaches are especially welcome. We are also very interested in papers that explore approaches and methods for examining feminist media production in emerging and digital media. We encourage those considering submission to take a broad view of media production and a local perspective on these practices, as we are interested in case studies from different parts of the world. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: ● Feminized and feminist media production activities ● Aspirational, affective and immaterial labor and precarity in media production ● Care, intimacy, and social reproduction in the context of media-making ● Racialization of women’s cultural work ● Inclusions and exclusions in media production training ● Internships, mentorship, and professionalization activities in media production ● Global mobility, migration, and women’s media production ● Craft, handmade, amateurism, and vernacular practices of media production ● Independent production, do-what-you-love, and passion discourse ● Female entrepreneurialism and the hustle in media-making ● Algorithmic shaping and data feminism approaches References Ball, Vicky & Bell, Melanie (2013.) “Working Women: Women’s Work: Production, History, Gender.” The Journal of British Cinema and Television, 10(3), pp. 547-562. Banks, Miranda J. (2009.) “Gender Below-the-Line: Defining Feminist Production Studies.” In Production Studies: Cultural Studies of Media, edited by Vicki Mayer, Miranda J. Banks & John Thornton Caldwell. Routledge, pp. 87-98. Boserup, Brad., McKenney, Mark, & Elkbuli, Adel. (2020). “Alarming Trends in US Domestic Violence during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 38(12), pp. 2753-2755. <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2020.04.077>https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2020.04.077 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajem.2020.04.077> Bradbury-Jones, Caroline., & Isham, Louise. (2020). “The Pandemic Paradox: The Consequences of COVID-19 on Domestic Violence.” Journal of Clinical Nursing, 29(13-14), pp. 2047–2049. <https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.15296>https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.15296 <https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.15296> Consalvo, Mia. (2008). “Crunched by Passion: Women Game Developers and Workplace Challenges.” In Beyond Barbie & Mortal Kombat: New Perspectives on Gender and Gaming. Edited by Yasmin B. Kafai, Carrie Heeter, Jill Denner and Jennifer Y. Sun. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, pp 177-191. Duffy, Brooke Erin. (2015). “The romance of work: Gender and aspirational labour in the digital culture industries.” International Journal of Cultural Studies, pp. 1-17. Hill, Erin. (2016.) Never Done: A History of Women's Work in Media Production. Rutgers University Press. Kearney, Mary Celeste. (1998). “Producing Girls: Rethinking the Study of Female Youth Culture.” In Delinquents and Debutants: Twentieth Century American Girls’ Culture, ed. Sherrie Inniss, New York: New York University Press, pp. 285-310. Lauzen, Martha M. (2021). “Indie Women in a Pandemic Year: Behind-the-Scenes Employment of Women in U.S. Independent Film, 2020-21.” A report published by the Center for the Study of Women in Television & Film, San Diego State University. https://womenintvfilm.sdsu.edu/indie-women-in-a-pandemic-year-behind-the-sc… <https://womenintvfilm.sdsu.edu/indie-women-in-a-pandemic-year-behind-the-sc…> Mayer, Vicky. (2011). Below the Line: Producers and Production Studies in the New Television Economy. Duke University Press. Nakamura, Lisa. (2011). “Economies of Digital Production in East Asia: iPhone Girls and the Transnational Circuits of Cool.” Media Fields Journal, 2. Nakamura, Lisa. (2014). “Indigenous Circuits: Navajo Women and the Racialization of Early Electronic Manufacture.” American Quarterly, 66(4), pp. 919-941. Power, Kate. (2020). “The COVID-19 Pandemic has Increased the Care Burden of Women and Families.” Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy, 16(1), pp. 67-73. <https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2020.1776561>https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2020.1776561 <https://doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2020.1776561> Prescott, Julie & Bogg, Jan. (2011). “Segregation in a Male-Dominated Industry: Women Working in the Computer Games Industry.” International Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 3, pp. 206-227. Reynolds, Siân. (1998). “The Face on the Cutting-Room Floor: Women Editors in the French Cinema of the 1930s.” Labour History Review, 63(1), pp. 66–82. Riordan, Ellen. (2002). “Intersections and New Directions: On Feminism and Political Economy.” In Sex & Money: Feminism and Political Economy in the Media, edited by Eileen R. Meehan & Ellen Riordan. University of Minnesota Press, pp. 3-15. Seedat, Soraya & Rondon, Marta. (2021). “Women’s Wellbeing and the Burden of Unpaid Work.” BMJ, 374:n1972. <https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n1972>https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n1972 <https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n1972> White, Michele. (2015). Producing Women: The Internet, Traditional Femininity, Queerness, and Creativity. New York and London: Routledge. Dr HAN Xiao Research Associate, State Key Lab of Media Convergence and Communication, Communication University of China (CUC) Commissioning Editor, Global Media and China http://journals.sagepub.com/home/gch <http://gch.sagepub.com/>

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Digital politics in the US in 2021
by Colin Delany 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

Hi everyone, happy new year. In case you're interested, I wrote a digital politics year-in-review (more of a trends piece, really) for campaignsandelections.com. They used my proposed title, and I am proud to do my small part to address America's critical shortage of clickbait headlines. https://campaignsandelections.com/campaigntech/digital-politics-in-2021-wha… Happy to chat if anyone wants to dig into these ideas. --cpd "How to Use the Internet to Change the World - and Win Elections: A Comprehensive Guide to Digital Politics for Campaigns, Activists & Advocates" [Ebook] http://www.epolitics.com/winning Colin Delany Epolitics.com -- digital strategy for politics and advocacy http://www.epolitics.com 202-422-4682 cpd(a)epolitics.com @epolitics

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Do you do text/data mining? Know someone who does?
by Patricia Aufderheide 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

My brilliant, kind colleagues who do text/data mining research, or know someone who does, or know someone who knows someone, can you remind your networks to take our survey on obstacles researchers find doing text and data mining? It's a project of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University's law school. UVa's Brandon Butler and I are honchoing it. Endless gratitude! The link: bit.ly/3DaquW7<https://t.co/W0AxM2K6yR> Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor, School of Communication (she/they) Living and working where Nacotchtank and Piscataway peoples once lived PhD Program Director Founder, Center for Media & Social Impact American University 4400 Massachusetts Av., NW American University, Washington, DC 20016-8017 McKinley Hall 323 @paufder @cmsimpact cmsimpact.org<http://cmsimpact.org> paufder(a)american.edu<mailto:paufder@american.edu> 202-885-2069 office 240-643-4805 mobile Zoom Office Hours: https://american.zoom.us/j/96788556467?pwd=eFNpa2JMWlZQRm5pT1Z0b3RVUlRXQT09 Reclaiming Fair Use--t<https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/022637419X?pf_rd_p=d1f45e03-8b73-4c9a-9be…>he second edition is out, with new stories, quizzes and entirely new chapters on the surprising success of fair use in enabling creativity!

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ESIDA'22 - Submission deadline extended to Jan. 10th 2022
by omokryn＠univ.haifa.ac.il 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

Fifth ACM IUI Workshop on Exploratory Search and Interactive Data Analytics (ESIDA) https://sites.google.com/view/esida2022/home 22 March 2022, Virtual Important Dates: *Extended* Submission deadline: January 10, 2022 (midnight Hawaii time) * If you have already submitted your paper you may update it Acceptance notification: January 28, 2022 Final manuscript due: February 11, 2022 Workshop: March 22, 2022 Workshop Description: This workshop will be part of the ACM Intelligent User Interfaces 2022 Conference (http://iui.acm.org/2022/) The workshop focuses on systems that personalize, summarize and visualize data for supporting interactive information seeking and information discovery, along with tools that enable user modeling and methods for incorporating user needs and preferences into both analytics and visualization. Additionally, exploratory search is an important tool in how people interact with algorithms online. Examples for interacting with online algorithms are recommender systems, and the understanding of online manipulation systems and algorithms, including bots and the promotion of fake news. Our aim is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on different personalization aspects and applications of exploratory search and interactive data analytics. This will allow us to achieve four goals: (1) propose new strategies for systems that need to convey the rationale behind their decisions or inference, and the sequence of steps that lead to speciﬁc (search) results; (2) develop new user modeling and personalization techniques for exploratory search and interactive data analytics; (3) develop design principles for exploratory search of online algorithms and systems; (4) develop a set of evaluation metrics for personalization in exploratory search. The workshop aims to solicit submissions in the following areas of personalized interactive data analytics and exploratory search: Personalized interactive exploration via interactive data analytics: – personalization aspects in systems for exploratory search. – cross-domain/ context-aware/ cross-platform exploratory search systems. Data analytics: – interactive interfaces for data-intensive platforms. – preprocessing vs. online processing. – interactive data visualization – evaluation of human-centered exploratory search and data analytics. Explainable intelligent systems: – metrics for explainable exploratory search. – explainability and transparency in expert vs. non-expert systems. – human-in-the-loop analytics systems. – efﬁcient vs. explainable analytics. – user perception of explainability and transparency in interactive intelligent systems. Interaction with Online algorithms – conveying awareness of algorithmic fairness and bias in retrieval systems. – exploratory studies of online algorithms and recommender systems. – exploratory search of online manipulation systems and algorithms (e.g., fake news and bots). – interactively modeling user’s information needs for high-recall information retrieval. – new applications of exploratory search and interactive data analytics. Organizers: Dorota Glowacka, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki (Finland), glowacka[at]cs.helsinki.fi Evangelos Milios, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (Canada), eem[at]cs.dal.ca<http://cs.dal.ca> Axel J. Soto, Institute for Computer Science and Engineering, UNS - CONICET (Argentina), axel.soto[at]cs.uns.edu.ar<http://cs.uns.edu.ar> Fernando V. Paulovich, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University (Canada), paulovich[at]dal.ca<http://dal.ca> Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn, Department of Information Systems, University of Haifa (Israel), omokryn[at]univ.haifa.ac.il<http://univ.haifa.ac.il> Submission Information: We encourage submissions of work in progress, concept papers, case studies, ongoing research projects, reports on recently completed PhD dissertations or recently accepted journal papers, and generally material that will stimulate discussion, generate useful feedback to the authors, encourage research collaborations and vigorous exchange of ideas on promising research directions. The length should be less than 5000 words and it should follow IUI's formatting guidelines Papers can be submitted through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esida2022 Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn, PhD SCANLab:http://scan.haifa.ac.il

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12 Streams 2021 #9 - AprIGF Showcase 2 'Internet’s Technical Success Factors'
by Joly MacFie 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

After the presentation here, you will see Olaf Kolkman step up with a mapping to ISOC's 'Internet Way of Networking' framework. The finished study was presented at the Global IGF on Dec 8 2021, video of that can be seen at https://youtu.be/nl1n4VGRHng ISOC Live posted: "On Monday January 3 2022, the ninth installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights features the Asia Pacific Internet Governance Forum (AprIGF) Showcase #2 entitled 'Internet’s Technical Success Factors' from Se" [image: livestream]On *Monday January 3 2022*, the ninth installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘*12 Days of Streams <https://isoc.live/?s=%2312streams>*‘ annual highlights features the *Asia Pacific Internet Governance Forum <https://aprigf.org.np/>* (AprIGF) Showcase #2 entitled '*Internet’s Technical Success Factors <https://report.analysysmason.com/internet_success_factors/>*' from September 29 2021. This was a presentation of a preliminary report on an* Analysys Mason study <https://report.analysysmason.com/internet_success_factors/>*, jointly commissioned by *APNIC <https://www.apnic.net/>* and *LACNIC <https://www.lacnic.net/>*, of whether the Internet continues to be "fit for purpose". *INTRODUCTION* *Paul Wilson*, APNIC *PRESENTERS* *Michael Kende*, Analysys Mason *Julia Allford*, Analysys Mason *Amund Kvalbein*, Analysys Mason *HOST / MODERATOR* *Joyce Chen*, APNIC *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-9 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-9>* (Open captions) *TWITTER #12Streams <http://bit.ly/2t12HX2J> #APrIGF2021 @aprigf2021 @aprigf_official @lacnic @APNIC @AnalysysMason @amundkvalbein @MichaelKende @kolkman #IWN #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/>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/12streams2021-9 <https://archive.org/details/12streams2021-9>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14964/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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New book: VIRTUALITY AND HUMANITY
by Sam Lehman-wilzig 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

Hello all: I am happy to announce the publication of my new book VIRTUALITY AND HUMANITY: Virtual Practice and Its Evolution from Pre-History to the 21st Century (Springer Nature). As we are well aware, today's news is full of the "future": Metaverse, Virtual & Augmented Reality, and the like. My book looks in the opposite direction: virtuality's expression and expansion through human history in numerous fields of endeavor: Communication (Technologies); Literature and the Arts; Economics; Religion; Philosophy, Math, & Physics; Nationhood & Government; and more. In addition, it analyzes the interaction of modern media with other "virtualizing" areas (e.g., physics, the arts, etc.). It places contemporary “compunications” within a far broader social environment, showing how the phenomenon of virtuality (broadly defined) influences — and is influenced by — communications, also broadly defined. However, it doesn’t stop there. The book delves into the psychological and social reasons for the universality of virtuality, past and present. The central thesis is that virtuality has always been an integral part of humanity — indeed, a core element of what makes us human. That stems from our brain’s partial and distorted perception fo external reality and faulty internal cognition; a full chapter is devoted to brain psychology i.e., psychological virtualization processes. Another chapter shows how virtuality serves six core functions in human existence, among them escaping boredom, future planning, and relieving existential dread. From there it moves on to the question of how will future "compunications" and other technologies affect virtuality? And finally: can/should there be limits to human virtualizing? You can access the Front Matter of the book for free: especially the (substantive) Preface and detailed Table of Contents (first click on the “Table of Contents” menu, and then on the first “PDF” download arrow — then scroll through the title page etc.): https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-6526-4<https://link.springer.com/book/9789811665257> The book is expensive, but you might wish to have your university library order it if it doesn’t fit your academic budget. If you have any questions or comments, don’t hesitate to send them on to me: Sam.Lehman-Wilzig(a)biu.ac.il<mailto:Sam.Lehman-Wilzig@biu.ac.il> ——————————————— Prof. Sam Lehman-Wilzig School of Communication (Chairman, 2014-2016) Bar-Ilan University Ramat Gan 52900 Israel

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Ori Schwarz's new book
by Ilana Gershon 03 Jan '22

03 Jan '22

Dear Colleagues, You can read Dan M. Kotliar's interview with Ori Schwarz on the CaMP anthropology blog today. https://campanthropology.org Best, Ilana Press Blurb for Sociological Theory for Digital Society: The digital revolution has not only transformed multiple aspects of social life – it also shakes sociological theory, transforming the most basic assumptions that have underlain it. In this timely book, Ori Schwarz explores the main challenges digitalization poses to different strands of sociological theory and offers paths to adapt them to new social realities. What would symbolic interactionism look like in a world where interaction no longer takes place within bounded situations and is constantly documented as durable digital objects? How should we understand new digitally mediated forms of human association that bind our actions and lives together but have little in common with old-time 'collectives'; and why are they not simply ‘social networks’? How does social capital transform when it is materialized in a digital form, and how does it remould power structures? What happens to our conceptualization of power when faced with the emergence of new forms of algorithmic power? And what happens when labour departs from work? By posing and answering such fascinating questions, and offering critical tools for both students and scholars of social theory and digital society to engage with them, this thought-provoking book draws the outline of future sociological theory for our digital society.

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12 Streams 2021 #8 - Talking Tech: Girls and Women in ICT - Rinalia Abdul Rahim and Sophie Patrick
by Joly MacFie 03 Jan '22

03 Jan '22

2021 marked the 10th Anniversary of International Girls in ICT Day.” As part of the 'Talking Tech' interview series over 200 girls and women in ICT shared their stories <https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdCp2BJdjaQAJmm_GD2T15HgepUAuENQ->. This particular edition enables us to learn a bit more about one of ISOC's senior leaders, plus, of course, one particular New York student. ISOC Live posted: "On Sunday January 2 2022, in the eighth installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights, features a 'Talking Tech: Girls and Women in ICT' conversation between Sophie Patrick, of Marymount School of New York, and" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-8>On *Sunday January 2 2022*, in the eighth installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘*12 Days of Streams <https://isoc.live/?s=%2312streams>*‘ annual highlights, features a '*Talking Tech: Girls and Women in ICT <https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdCp2BJdjaQAJmm_GD2T15HgepUAuENQ->*' conversation between *Sophie Patrick <https://www.linkedin.com/in/sophie-patrick/>*, of Marymount School of New York, and *Rinalia Abdul Rahim <https://www.internetsociety.org/author/abdulrahim/>*, Senior Vice President, Strategy, Communications and Engagement, Internet Society. The Talking Tech intergenerational interview series supports the *Girls in ICT Day <https://www.itu.int/women-and-girls/girls->* initiative and the *EQUALS Global Partnership <https://www.equalsintech.org>*. Run by *ITU <https://itu.int/>* with the *United Nations International Computing Centre <https://www.unicc.org/>* (UNICC) and the *UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth <https://www.un.org/youthenvoy/>*, it enables aspiring ICT professionals to interview and be interviewed by role models who are leaders in their field. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-8 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-8> *(Open captions) *TWITTER #12Streams <http://bit.ly/2t12HX2J> #TalkingTech @Rinalia_A_Rahim @ITU @UNYouthEnvoy @unicc_ict #WomeninTech #GirlsinICT #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/>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/12streams2021-8 <https://archive.org/details/12streams2021-8>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14960/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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12 Streams 2021 #7 – Internet Society Action Plan 2022 – Andrew Sullivan – A Healthy Internet for Future Generations
by Joly MacFie 02 Jan '22

02 Jan '22

Happy New Year! Give thanks to ISOC Africa, as it is their regional calls that every year give us the Action Plan video. In 2022 the main new developments are 1) an effort, via 'friend of the court' filings, to influence US Internet policy 2) an 'investigation' into the promotion of LEO satellites for Internet connectivity. ISOC Live posted: "On Saturday January 1 2022, in the seventh installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights, Internet Society President & CEO Andrew Sullivan, gives a quick overview of ISOC's Action Plan 2022 - A Healthy Inte" <http://https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-7>On *Saturday January 1 2022*, in the seventh installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘*12 Days of Streams <https://isoc.live/?s=%2312streams>*‘ annual highlights, Internet Society President & CEO *Andrew Sullivan <https://twitter.com/SullivanISOC>*, gives a quick overview of ISOC's *Action Plan 2022 - A Healthy Internet for Future Generations <https://www.internetsociety.org/action-plan/2022/>*, at the ISOC *Africa Chapters Q4 Call <http://http://bit.ly/Q4AFRICA>* on 15 December 2021. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-7 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-7> *(Open captions) *TWITTER #12Streams <http://bit.ly/2t12HX2J> @SullivanISOC @InternetSociety #InternetforEveryone* *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/>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/12streams2021-7 <https://archive.org/details/12streams2021-7>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14954/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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