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CfP: Comparative Media Studies in Today's World - 2022!
by Svetlana S. Bodrunova 08 Dec '21

08 Dec '21

[Apologies for cross-posting] Dear colleagues, CMSTW'2022, a conference on comparative studies of communication and media, is coming soon! 🙂 April 19-20, 2022 - please save the dates. The full CfP is attached to this letter. 'Comparative Media Studies in Today's World' will be celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2022. We invite you to submit to the conference (Easychair will open soon) and to follow our Facebook community at https://www.facebook.com/cmstwconf. The conference theme this year is Mediated Solidarities and Inequalities. We want to make a strong claim for media and communication as a source, means, and condition for solidarity search in the times of inequalities, disparities, and divisions. Today, networked communication is focus of attention for hundreds of scholars, and interlinking network structures and content is one of the conference foci. In 2022, we will have several new formats and will feature both new members of the CMSTW family and those who have helped us to gain our place in media science. Among the invited guests, there will be Silvio Waisbord, Ingrid Volkmer, Susanne Fengler, Katrin Voltmer, Anna Gladkova, Anna Litvinenko, and many more. We will have events for young scholars, invited panels from ICA and IAMCR, new books session, and virtual tours, among the rest. The conference portal cmstw2022.org will be open by December 20, 2021 (meanwhile, you can check the previous conference, cmstw2021.org) the deadline for abstract and extended abstract submissions will be February 25. More on publishing options and awards to come soon! Welcome to St.Petersburg, Russia (virtually)! -- Svetlana S. Bodrunova, Prof., D.Polit.Sci. Head, Center for International Media Research School of Journalism and Mass Communications, St.Petersburg State University +7 921 933 02 14 s.bodrunova(a)spbu.ru, spasibo-tebe(a)yandex.ru

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CfA Fellowships and Working Groups at CAIS
by Esther Laufer 08 Dec '21

08 Dec '21

Are you studying the social, political, economic, media-related or cultural effects of digitalization? Do you want to concentrate exclusively on a project and are interested in interdisciplinary exchange? The Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Bochum, Germany, supports innovative projects that deal with the social opportunities and challenges of the digital transformation. Experts from academia and practice can apply for Fellowships and Working Groups. The funding program is open to experts of all career stages, to all disciplines and areas of investigation, as well as to pure research and to projects that are more applied in orientation. The funding program is continuous. Apply by 31 January 2022 for Fellowships starting from October 2022 and for Working Groups starting from January 2023. For more information go to:http://www.cais.nrw/en/callforapplications/ . If you have any questions, please contact esther.laufer(a)cais.nrw mailto:esther.laufer@cais.nrw .

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JOB: Wikimedia Foundation Technology Law and Policy Fellow
by Joly MacFie 07 Dec '21

07 Dec '21

https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/3689514?gh_src=89561fbd1us Technology Law and Policy Fellowat Wikimedia Foundation Remote (United States) *Summary* The Technology Law and Policy Fellow position is designed for a lawyer or other individual who typically has up to two years of legal or public policy experience and is passionate about free knowledge and the open internet. This position provides an immersive in-house experience with specific education and mentorship in the areas of Internet regulation and technology law and the operations of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF, the not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting the creation and sharing of free knowledge and maintaining Wikipedia and its sister projects). This position will report to the Senior Public Policy Manager at WMF. WMF staff are currently working remotely due to the Covid-19 pandemic; the candidate may be located anywhere within the United States. The position will last for a duration of approximately one year from the start date. *Role* - Work individually and in teams under the supervision of Wikimedia Foundation’s Senior Public Policy Manager to advise the Foundation on new and developing legal and public policy issues. - Research and offer guidance to the Foundation on developing areas of law and policy, including copyright, privacy, free expression, intermediary liability, access to knowledge, censorship, international conflict of laws, and free content licensing. - Manage and administer various projects under the supervision of the Foundation legal team. - Assist the Legal Team in its efforts to monitor and provide input on global developments in public policy that may affect free knowledge. - Work cross-departmentally with colleagues at the Wikimedia Foundation to resolve legal questions, provide counsel on legal issues, and develop and communicate the Foundation’s positions towards public policy issues. - Participate in lobbying efforts in the U.S. or abroad to promote legislation and regulation that support a free and accessible internet and oppose regulations that harm free expression and access to knowledge. *Requirements * - Experience related to the Wikimedia Foundation's free knowledge mission, including in areas such as free culture issues, public policy advocacy relating to law and technology, human rights, Creative Commons licensing, or similar. - The ability to excel in a fast-paced, multitasking environment that demands fast turn-around. - Fluency communicating complex topics in English both clearly and succinctly, in writing and orally, to expert and non-expert audiences alike. - Curiosity and flexibility that allows them to tackle complex problems in creative ways. - Experience working with online user communities (experience with wikis or Wikimedia projects is preferred). - The ability to flourish in a highly transparent and collaborative environment and work on a team with diverse demographic and cultural characteristics. - Experience or completed coursework in some or all of the following areas of law: internet law, internet policy, freedom of speech (domestic and international), human rights, intellectual property, international law, privacy, data security, and/or licensing. (JD, equivalent or PhD preferred) *Pluses* - Multilingual. Fluency in French, German, Mandarin, or Indic languages is especially helpful. - Experience working in countries outside the United States or with clients or colleagues from outside the United States. - Experience with policy advocacy, such as with an NGO or in government. About the Wikimedia Foundation The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive. The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA. *As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.* *If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at recruiting(a)wikimedia.org <recruiting(a)wikimedia.org> or (415) 839-6885.* -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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CfP: special issue Social Justice and Digital Gaming - journal gamevironments - 1. Feb. 2022
by Lisa Kienzl 07 Dec '21

07 Dec '21

Dear colleagues, if you are interested in Games and Social Justice, please check out the Call for Papers for the upcoming Special Issue “This Time it’s for all the Marbles. Towards Social Justice in Digital Gaming” edited by Patrick Prax in the peer-reviewed open access journal GAMEVIRONMENTS (https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/) Best wishes, Lisa ================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue GAMEVIRONMENTS ------------------------------------------------------ This Time it’s for all the Marbles.Towards Social Justice in Digital Gaming. edited by Patrick Prax ----------------------------------------------------------- Digital games are a central element of contemporary media ecology both in terms of playing and making games, but also as an anchor point for communities and cultures. The impact games and gaming have on our societies is both hard to define and undeniable. They extend towards increased access to cultural production and creativity, allowing people to be social in isolation, and to expand the social imaginary. At the same time, they are related to exploitation and precarity, isolate people under the guise of sociability, and are connected to xenophobic and bigoted movements that threaten democratic values and civic liberties. While these are not issues that are exclusive to game it can be argued that gaming as a culture, community, and environment warrant attention here because of their central role for contemporary culture, creative industries, and digital platforms. The gaming community has regrettably been the training ground for alt-right politics that are successfully being used globally to de-stabilize democratic discourses and it is still a central recruitment pool for said radical movements. This makes it important to investigate the environment of games and gaming for understanding the current political changes towards xenophobia, white supremacy, nationalism, and fascism where games and game communities are a puzzle piece that should not be left out of the picture. The issue does see games here as a part of contemporary political and cultural zeitgeist, but also as material media that is produced and consumed in specific socio-economic context. This means that also perspectives that center on the economic and political conditions of game production and marketing are seen as relevant to these questions. That said, games and game culture are also spaces that brim with potential for critical and inclusive work. Game workers as well as the communities around games can be the creative anchor-point, the ground zero, or the staging area for organizing towards collective action towards more respectful and equitable futures. This special issue aims to examine the ways in which games and gaming are connected to and potentially accelerate undemocratic and bigoted movements while high-lighting projects and perspectives from games that contribute to social justice. The special issue has been created based on the submissions to the Game Studies Temporary Working Group at the NordMedia 2021 conference. We invite diverse, critical, activist, and political work connected to games and game culture from a number of perspectives inside the ecosystem of games: designers, scholars, journalists, activists, workplace agitators, community managers, and player creators. ------------------------------------------------ In this special issue, we want to extend beyond purely academic work in order to highlight steps taken towards social justice in gaming, wherever they may be found and whatever they may look like. This means that in addition to the journal’s traditional formats of peer-reviewed articles, we are also including a call for reports of practical efforts towards social justice both to share best practices and to learn from challenges and mistakes. The precise format for such reports can be discussed with the editor. -------------------------------------------------- Topics for the all forms of contributions may include, but are not limited to: * Using games for social change, both in changing discourse and practice * Empowering facilitators of social change through games or play * Gaming as the ecosystem for inclusion or exclusion * Exploitation in games and gaming * Organizing and political agitation in games and gaming * Making visible the structures of bigotry, sexism, and white supremacy to be able to fight them * Discrimination, toxicity * Critical epistemologies for political resistance * Gaming and its relation to fascism * The military-entertainment complex and ways to resist it * Black and indigenous-led perspectives on gaming * Game culture and the framing of politics * The politics of game production * Critical Game literacy * Political economy of game production and marketing * Gaming and civic society * The role of games and gaming in the rise of fascism ---------------------------------------------- GUIDELINES For all forms of contributions please submit a title and 300-word abstract to Patrick Prax (patrick.prax(a)speldesign.uu.se) by 1. February 2022. -------------------------------------------- Possible formats for submission include: * regular academic articles * reports * interviews * book reviews * game reviews * reports of practical effort Guideline for “Reports of practical efforts” For reports of practical efforts, please submit a short description of the effort (300 words) as well as a contextualization of where this happened. Please explain briefly what you consider to be the take-away for future actions, both in terms of what can work or what does not. The editors are prepared to discuss questions regarding anonymity. --------------------------------------------- Please include pictures and media if you have them. Keep your language clear and concise. All articles submitted will be subject to double-blind peer-review. There is no article processing charge. ------------------------------------------- Here you find more information on submission formats and guidelines: https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/ https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/gamevir… ----------------------------------------------- TIMELINE Title and abstract submission: 1. February 2022 Full text submission: 1. June 2022 -- Dr. Dr. Lisa Kienzl (sie/ihr | she/her) Literaturen und Medien der Religion | Institut für Religionswissenschaft und Religionspädagogik http://www.religion.uni-bremen.de Lab "Media and Religion" | ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/zemki/labs/media-and-religion Managing editor gamevironments https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/ Universität Bremen Sportturm (SpT) Postfach 330 440 28359 Bremen T. +49 (0)421 218 67912 -- Dr. Dr. Lisa Kienzl (sie/ihr | she/her) Literaturen und Medien der Religion | Institut für Religionswissenschaft und Religionspädagogik http://www.religion.uni-bremen.de Lab "Media and Religion" | ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/zemki/labs/media-and-religion Managing editor gamevironments https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/ Universität Bremen Sportturm (SpT) Postfach 330 440 28359 Bremen T. +49 (0)421 218 67912

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New longform article on machine learning and investigative journalism
by Monika Sengul-Jones 06 Dec '21

06 Dec '21

Hi air-l list members: I'm writing to share my latest article for Data Journalism.com, a project of the European Journalism Centre, on using machine learning and investigative journalism, which may be of relevance to your work. Bring in the machines <https://datajournalism.com/read/longreads/machine-learning-investigative-jo…>: AI-powered investigative journalism describes how journalists/newsrooms are using machine learning to hold governments and big businesses accountable. And features case studies from reporters working with Buzzfeed News, ICIJ, Grist, The Markup, and more. It's written for journalists, but appropriate for a general audience as well -- students, educators, academics, media makers, and/or anyone curious about the uptake of machine learning for investigative reporting on or with large data sets. I hope you will read and if you are so moved, share. Happy to answer questions as well. Link: https://datajournalism.com/read/longreads/machine-learning-investigative-jo… Best -- Monika Sengul-Jones, PhD (she/her) Independent writer and scholar www.monikasjones.com On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 1:57 PM <air-l-request(a)listserv.aoir.org> wrote: > Send Air-L mailing list submissions to > air-l(a)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. TODAY! GigaNet annual symposium on IGF 0 day (Carmi, Elinor) > 2. Algorithmic Desire and the Ideology of Twenty-First Century > Capitalism (Matthew Flisfeder) (camrievent) > 3. 2022 Fellowships at the Digital Life Initiative, Cornell Tech > (Jessie G Taft) > 4. Call for Chapters and Inclusive Games Group > (Kat Schrier Shaenfield) > 5. Lecturer position in Digital Media and Society at JOMEC, > Cardiff University (Lina Dencik) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 09:15:12 +0000 > From: "Carmi, Elinor" <Elinor.Carmi(a)city.ac.uk> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] TODAY! GigaNet annual symposium on IGF 0 day > Message-ID: > < > LO0P265MB480055B485B3B270FE770BC3A86D9(a)LO0P265MB4800.GBRP265.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hello everyone, > > You're invited to join GigaNet's Annual Symposium TODAY from 14.00 to > 19.45 Central European Time (on Day 0 of the Internet Governance Forum). > > The program is available on our website and as part of the IGF schedule > (all times indicated are in CET) -> > https://www.giga-net.org/6-december-2021-annual-giganet-symposium-program-v… > > 14.00-14.05 Introduction and Welcome > > 14:05-15:35 - Parallel Sessions 1 > > PANEL 1A: Platform Regulation > PANEL 1B: The Governance of Privacy > > 15:40-17:10 - Parallel Sessions 2 > > PANEL 2A: Digital Sovereignty > PANEL 2B: Internet Governance During the Pandemic > > 17:15-18:45 - Parallel Sessions 3 > > PANEL 3A: Internet Principles and Practices Under the Magnifying Glass > PANEL 3B: Mapping Agency and Stakeholder Dynamics > > 18.45-19.45 - GigaNet Business Meeting > > > Please join the debate on our live tweeting using the hashtag #GigaNet2021 > and #IGF2021. > > Looking forward to seeing you all! > > Take care and best wishes, > Dr. Elinor Carmi (she/her) > Lecturer in Media and Communication, > Department of Sociology, City University. > Website: https://elinorcarmi.com/. > Twitter: @Elinor_Carmi > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 12:21:30 +0000 > From: camrievent <camrievent(a)westminster.ac.uk> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Algorithmic Desire and the Ideology of Twenty-First > Century Capitalism (Matthew Flisfeder) > Message-ID: > < > CWXP265MB1574ADA989FE4999C11B03DA916D9(a)CWXP265MB1574.GBRP265.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > Please join us at the CAMRI seminar Thursday this week > > Algorithmic Desire and the Ideology of Twenty-First Century Capitalism > > Matthew Flisfeder (University of Winnipeg) > > Date: Thursday, 9 December 2021 > Time: 17.00-19.00 (UK time) > Location: Online event - Zoom Meeting (please register so that we can send > you the Zoom link) > > Registration: > https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/algorithmic-desire-and-the-ideology-of-twent… > > Much has been written about the more deleterious dimensions of social > media websites, platforms, and apps, from Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, > to Instagram and Snapchat, dating apps like Tinder, and more recent apps > like TikTok. We are all more than familiar with critiques of social media > corporate and government surveillance, the commodification, expropriation > and exploitation of user-provided data, the tailoring and curation of > content, and of course recent dilemmas focused on fake news tying our use > of social media to international cyberwarfare. Given all of these potential > problems, why don?t we just give up and abandon our attachment to social > media? How might we grapple with the exploitative and anti-democratic > aspects of social media set against the kinds of enjoyment that it > procures? Despite some of these problems, Matthew Flisfeder argues that > social media helps us to grasp the co-ordinates, not merely of our trouble > with machines and new media, but with the larger totalit > y of twenty-first century capitalism. Conceiving social media as a > central metaphor for our historical present, Flisfeder proposes extending > the concept to its fullest potentials. Instead of abandoning the concept, > Flisfeder argues that the term social media helps us to render what is > problematic about contemporary neoliberal capitalism, proposing that it is > only by pursuing and failing to achieve a truly authentic social media as > our goal that we are best positioned to understand the real contradictions > of our time, as well as dominant forms of subjectivity, consciousness, and > enjoyment. > > Biography > > Matthew Flisfeder is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communications > at The University of Winnipeg (Canada). He is the author of Algorithmic > Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media (Northwestern UP > 2021), Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner (Bloomsbury 2017), The Symbolic, > The Sublime, and Slavoj ?i?ek?s Theory of Film (Palgrave Macmillan 2012), > and co-editor of ?i?ek and Media Studies: A Reader (Palgrave Macmillan > 2014). > > > Further CAMRI Seminar this term: > > > Thursday, 16 December 2021 > > Book launch: AI for Everyone? Critical Perspectives > > > https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-ai-for-everyone-critical-perspec… > > > The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by > guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 > Regent Street, London W1B 2HW. > > This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have > received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and > its attachments from your system. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 16:59:17 +0000 > From: Jessie G Taft <jgt43(a)cornell.edu> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] 2022 Fellowships at the Digital Life Initiative, > Cornell Tech > Message-ID: > < > MN2PR04MB6862667A525DACDFA272FCA2AB6D9(a)MN2PR04MB6862.namprd04.prod.outlook.com > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Good morning, > > Cornell Tech's Digital Life Initiative (DLI) invites applications for its > 2022 Fellowship class. This year, we are recruiting for two Fellowship > positions: a Technology Law and Policy Fellowship and a Postdoctoral > Research Fellowship. Working alongside and complementing an outstanding, > multidisciplinary community of DLI Postdoctoral Fellows, Doctoral Fellows, > Visitors, and Faculty, new Fellows will pursue research in, and policy > approaches to, a range of urgent topics including but not limited to > privacy and surveillance, platform governance, transparency, content > moderation, algorithmic discrimination, digital political economy, > information control and freedom, fundamental rights, digital inequality, > network regulation, and security. > > Read more and apply here: > https://www.dli.tech.cornell.edu/2022-dli-fellowships > > Applications will be considered beginning on January 15, 2022, until > positions are filled. > > Please forward to others who may be interested, and don't hesitate to > contact us at digitallife(a)cornell.edu<mailto:digitallife@cornell.edu> if > you have any questions about the position. > > Sincerely, > > Jessie G Taft > On behalf of Helen Nissenbaum and the Digital Life Initiative > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 12:45:28 -0500 > From: Kat Schrier Shaenfield <kschrier(a)gmail.com> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Call for Chapters and Inclusive Games Group > Message-ID: > < > CADWQvTJDR7SDWs8vEVd_zaN__c7ZzOq8xqauoKXkBi05u04ayw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > A few reminders: > > 1. We have a new *Inclusive Games Network* > > We are hosting our next meet-and-greet meeting on *Thursday, December 9th* > at 8 pm ET. Come join us! > > We are exploring things like... > --Developing an "unconference" on inclusive games > --Creating whitepapers/open access books on inclusive games > --Connecting with each other and with organizations that are supporting > inclusion in games > --Finding collaborators for grants, research, and scholarship > --Finding collaborators for games and other projects > --Creating a cozy, inclusive, caring community > --& MORE! > Please email me if you want more details about the group and our meeting. > > 2. In fact... we have a new book in the works! > *50 Games to Use for Inclusion, Equity, and Justice (ETC Press)* > > The call for chapters is due on *this Thursday* December the 9th! > > Here is the VERY QUICK proposal form > < > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSerAZdBHHzRMAO3taMPy_qUwQ2eH4pzmPG… > > > : > > https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSerAZdBHHzRMAO3taMPy_qUwQ2eH4pzmPG… > > If you don't know which of many games to choose, just pick one and then in > the comments, provide other possibilities -- that's fine! > > If you don't know any game to choose but you want to participate, that's > fine too! Just add your name and put in the games questions N/A - and then > explain in the comments that you are excited to write about any game (I can > help you choose one)! > > We are specifically looking for people willing to write about: > Indie games > Non-digital games/board/card games > AR/VR games > Online multiplayer games > Popular commercial games > TTRPGs > and more! > > Thanks! > ----------------------------------------- > Dr. Karen (Kat) Schrier > http://www.karenschrier.com > www.twitter.com/drgamermom > > Associate Professor & Director, Games & Emerging Media program, Marist > College > Game Design Consultant, World Health Organization (WHO) Academy > Author, *We the Gamers* <https://gamesforcivics.com/> (Oxford University > Press) > Author, *Knowledge Games > <https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/knowledge-games>* (Johns Hopkins > University Press) > Editor, *Learning, Education, & Games <https://gamesforgrowing.com/> > book *series > (ETC Press/Carnegie Mellon) > Author, Designing Ourselves <https://www.adl.org/media/13011/download> > (Center > for Technology & Society) > *Please call me Kat or Dr. Kat (She/They)* > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2021 18:43:31 +0000 > From: Lina Dencik <DencikL(a)cardiff.ac.uk> > To: "air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org" <air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org> > Subject: [Air-L] Lecturer position in Digital Media and Society at > JOMEC, Cardiff University > Message-ID: > < > LO6P265MB6096C0CF8897CF75827F8871F96D9(a)LO6P265MB6096.GBRP265.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > The School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC) at Cardiff University > is looking to hire a Lecturer (Grade 7) in Digital Media and Society. > > The role involves the delivery of high-quality and research-led teaching > at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and to contribute to the > research record of the School through the commitment to carry out research > leading to the publishing of high-quality research; to pursue excellence in > research, teaching and enterprise and to inspire others to do the same; and > to advance the School?s renowned work in the field of digital media, > critical data studies, and data justice. > > Deadline for applications is 09/01/2022. Further details can be found > here: > https://krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/HomeWithPreLoad?partner… > > Best, > > Lina > > -- > > Professor Lina Dencik > > Co-Founder Data Justice Lab > > PI Data Justice: Understanding datafication in relation to social justice > (DATAJUSTICE), ERC Starting Grant 2018-2023 > > PI Advancing Data Justice in the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) > Act, EPSRC Network+ Grant 2021 > > Co-I Towards Democratic Auditing: Civic Participation in the Scoring > Society, Open Society Foundations 2018-2021 > > School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University > > Two Central Square, Central Square, Cardiff CF10 1FS > > Email: DencikL(a)cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:DencikL@cardiff.ac.uk>, Tel: +44 > (0)29 208 75461 > > Twitter: @LinaDencik > > Fellow, Center for Media, Data and Society, Central European University > > > > ------------------------------ > > 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 209, Issue 6 > ************************************* >

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Lecturer position in Digital Media and Society at JOMEC, Cardiff University
by Lina Dencik 06 Dec '21

06 Dec '21

The School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC) at Cardiff University is looking to hire a Lecturer (Grade 7) in Digital Media and Society. The role involves the delivery of high-quality and research-led teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and to contribute to the research record of the School through the commitment to carry out research leading to the publishing of high-quality research; to pursue excellence in research, teaching and enterprise and to inspire others to do the same; and to advance the School’s renowned work in the field of digital media, critical data studies, and data justice. Deadline for applications is 09/01/2022. Further details can be found here: https://krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/HomeWithPreLoad?partner… Best, Lina -- Professor Lina Dencik Co-Founder Data Justice Lab PI Data Justice: Understanding datafication in relation to social justice (DATAJUSTICE), ERC Starting Grant 2018-2023 PI Advancing Data Justice in the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act, EPSRC Network+ Grant 2021 Co-I Towards Democratic Auditing: Civic Participation in the Scoring Society, Open Society Foundations 2018-2021 School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University Two Central Square, Central Square, Cardiff CF10 1FS Email: DencikL(a)cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:DencikL@cardiff.ac.uk>, Tel: +44 (0)29 208 75461 Twitter: @LinaDencik Fellow, Center for Media, Data and Society, Central European University

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Call for Chapters and Inclusive Games Group
by Kat Schrier Shaenfield 06 Dec '21

06 Dec '21

A few reminders: 1. We have a new *Inclusive Games Network* We are hosting our next meet-and-greet meeting on *Thursday, December 9th* at 8 pm ET. Come join us! We are exploring things like... --Developing an "unconference" on inclusive games --Creating whitepapers/open access books on inclusive games --Connecting with each other and with organizations that are supporting inclusion in games --Finding collaborators for grants, research, and scholarship --Finding collaborators for games and other projects --Creating a cozy, inclusive, caring community --& MORE! Please email me if you want more details about the group and our meeting. 2. In fact... we have a new book in the works! *50 Games to Use for Inclusion, Equity, and Justice (ETC Press)* The call for chapters is due on *this Thursday* December the 9th! Here is the VERY QUICK proposal form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSerAZdBHHzRMAO3taMPy_qUwQ2eH4pzmPG…> : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSerAZdBHHzRMAO3taMPy_qUwQ2eH4pzmPG… If you don't know which of many games to choose, just pick one and then in the comments, provide other possibilities -- that's fine! If you don't know any game to choose but you want to participate, that's fine too! Just add your name and put in the games questions N/A - and then explain in the comments that you are excited to write about any game (I can help you choose one)! We are specifically looking for people willing to write about: Indie games Non-digital games/board/card games AR/VR games Online multiplayer games Popular commercial games TTRPGs and more! Thanks! ----------------------------------------- Dr. Karen (Kat) Schrier http://www.karenschrier.com www.twitter.com/drgamermom Associate Professor & Director, Games & Emerging Media program, Marist College Game Design Consultant, World Health Organization (WHO) Academy Author, *We the Gamers* <https://gamesforcivics.com/> (Oxford University Press) Author, *Knowledge Games <https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/content/knowledge-games>* (Johns Hopkins University Press) Editor, *Learning, Education, & Games <https://gamesforgrowing.com/> book *series (ETC Press/Carnegie Mellon) Author, Designing Ourselves <https://www.adl.org/media/13011/download> (Center for Technology & Society) *Please call me Kat or Dr. Kat (She/They)*

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2022 Fellowships at the Digital Life Initiative, Cornell Tech
by Jessie G Taft 06 Dec '21

06 Dec '21

Good morning, Cornell Tech's Digital Life Initiative (DLI) invites applications for its 2022 Fellowship class. This year, we are recruiting for two Fellowship positions: a Technology Law and Policy Fellowship and a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Working alongside and complementing an outstanding, multidisciplinary community of DLI Postdoctoral Fellows, Doctoral Fellows, Visitors, and Faculty, new Fellows will pursue research in, and policy approaches to, a range of urgent topics including but not limited to privacy and surveillance, platform governance, transparency, content moderation, algorithmic discrimination, digital political economy, information control and freedom, fundamental rights, digital inequality, network regulation, and security. Read more and apply here: https://www.dli.tech.cornell.edu/2022-dli-fellowships Applications will be considered beginning on January 15, 2022, until positions are filled. Please forward to others who may be interested, and don't hesitate to contact us at digitallife(a)cornell.edu<mailto:digitallife@cornell.edu> if you have any questions about the position. Sincerely, Jessie G Taft On behalf of Helen Nissenbaum and the Digital Life Initiative

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Quitting Digital Culture - a talk this Thursday
by Feldman, Zeena 06 Dec '21

06 Dec '21

Dear friends and colleagues, I write to invite you to an online talk this Thursday, called Quitting Digital Culture: Rethinking Agency in a Beyond-Choice Ontology. The talk is part of the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)’s Digital Aesthetics: Critique, Creativity and Selfhood in Computational Culture series. Full details below. It would be a joy to see you there! Warmest, Zeena Quitting Digital Culture: Rethinking Agency in a Beyond-Choice Ontology Zeena Feldman (King’s College London) Thursday, 9 December at 15:00-16:30 GMT (10:00-11.30am EST) The event is free but registration is required. Sign-up at https://forms.gle/NqUU9igLtfCZGWvW7. About the talk: Life in the UK has reached peak digital. Social media and smartphones are everywhere. Such pervasive connectivity may have its benefits but it also has no shortage of critics. Yet beyond pure condemnation (or celebration), how can we make sense of the mediated, always-on lives many of us lead? And how can we understand the varied practices of digital disconnection that operate within this technosocial moment of hyperconnectivity? This talk analyses connection and disconnection together and in relation in order to more fully understand the paradoxes and ambivalences of today’s connectivity culture. Empirically, it is grounded in findings from my Quitting Social Media project: a three-year, mixed-methods exploration of how people in the UK and further afield have navigated this historical moment of social media and smartphone hegemony. What emerges is a practically and affectively complex portrait of life with the digital, which I argue necessitates a radical rethinking of ‘choice’ and ‘agency’. About the speaker: Zeena Feldman is Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture in the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, where she runs the Quitting Social Media project. Her interdisciplinary research examines the relationship between digital technologies and everyday life. She has published widely, including on the sharing economy, online communities, queer visual culture, digital detox and mental health apps. She is co-editor, with Deborah Lupton, of Digital Food Cultures (Routledge, 2020) and editor of Art & the Politics of Visibility (IB Tauris, 2017).

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Algorithmic Desire and the Ideology of Twenty-First Century Capitalism (Matthew Flisfeder)
by camrievent 06 Dec '21

06 Dec '21

Please join us at the CAMRI seminar Thursday this week Algorithmic Desire and the Ideology of Twenty-First Century Capitalism Matthew Flisfeder (University of Winnipeg) Date: Thursday, 9 December 2021 Time: 17.00-19.00 (UK time) Location: Online event - Zoom Meeting (please register so that we can send you the Zoom link) Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/algorithmic-desire-and-the-ideology-of-twent… Much has been written about the more deleterious dimensions of social media websites, platforms, and apps, from Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, to Instagram and Snapchat, dating apps like Tinder, and more recent apps like TikTok. We are all more than familiar with critiques of social media corporate and government surveillance, the commodification, expropriation and exploitation of user-provided data, the tailoring and curation of content, and of course recent dilemmas focused on fake news tying our use of social media to international cyberwarfare. Given all of these potential problems, why don’t we just give up and abandon our attachment to social media? How might we grapple with the exploitative and anti-democratic aspects of social media set against the kinds of enjoyment that it procures? Despite some of these problems, Matthew Flisfeder argues that social media helps us to grasp the co-ordinates, not merely of our trouble with machines and new media, but with the larger totality of twenty-first century capitalism. Conceiving social media as a central metaphor for our historical present, Flisfeder proposes extending the concept to its fullest potentials. Instead of abandoning the concept, Flisfeder argues that the term social media helps us to render what is problematic about contemporary neoliberal capitalism, proposing that it is only by pursuing and failing to achieve a truly authentic social media as our goal that we are best positioned to understand the real contradictions of our time, as well as dominant forms of subjectivity, consciousness, and enjoyment. Biography Matthew Flisfeder is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communications at The University of Winnipeg (Canada). He is the author of Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media (Northwestern UP 2021), Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner (Bloomsbury 2017), The Symbolic, The Sublime, and Slavoj Žižek’s Theory of Film (Palgrave Macmillan 2012), and co-editor of Žižek and Media Studies: A Reader (Palgrave Macmillan 2014). Further CAMRI Seminar this term: Thursday, 16 December 2021 Book launch: AI for Everyone? Critical Perspectives https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-ai-for-everyone-critical-perspec… The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system.

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