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WEBCAST: 2021 Indigenous Connectivity Summit Policy Recommendations Launch Webinar
by Joly MacFie 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

This is just starting. Real Time Text https://bit.ly/31iOqJQ These recommendations focus on the following critical areas: • Inclusivity, community consultation, and engagement • spectrum rights and sovereignty • engaging local capacity in Indigenous communities • infrastructure and ownership • digital literacy, data sovereignty, and sustainability • affordability • effective and accurate mapping. ISOC Live posted: "On Wednesday December 1 2021 at 14:00 EST (19:00 UTC) the Internet Society will host a webinar to formally release the 2021 Indigenous Connectivity Summit (ICS) Policy Recommendations. This release event will provide an overview of the Policy Recommendati" [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/ICS2021RECS>On *Wednesday December 1 2021* at *14:00 EST* (19:00 UTC) the* Internet Society <https://www.internetsociety.org/regions/north-america/>* will host a webinar to formally release the *2021 Indigenous Connectivity Summit (ICS) Policy Recommendations. <https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2021/2021-indigenous-connecti…>* This release event will provide an overview of the Policy Recommendations and the impact that they can have on the state of connectivity in Indigenous communities in the US and Canada. The conversation will be led by members of the ICS community. The Recommendations were the culmination of six weeks of trainings on the role of policy and advocacy in the current connectivity environment. Participants — which included over 80 individuals from the US and Canada, most of whom are members of Indigenous communities —used the dialogue over these trainings to collaboratively develop a set of recommendations that aim to support Indigenous Communities in providing their own connectivity solutions. On the final day of the *2021 ICS <https://www.internetsociety.org/regions/north-america/>*, participants reviewed, contributed to, and ultimately adopted these recommendations as an official output of the summit. The Policy Recommendations build on previous documents in *2019 <https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2020/2019-ics-policy-recommen…>* and *2020 <https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2020/2020-ics-policy-recommen…>* . *SPEAKERS* *Leonardo Wassilie* (Alaska) *Niniau Kawaihae* (Hawai'i) *Madeleine Redfern* (Nunavut) (+ more) *HOST* *Anna Higgins*, Internet Society *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/ICS2021RECS <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/ICS2021RECS>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3DUqn2f <https://bit.ly/3DUqn2f>* *REAL TIME TEXT* (see ISOC.LIVE) *TWITTER #2021ICS @ISOC_NA #indigenous* *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.facebook.com/ISOCNewMexico/ <https://www.facebook.com/ISOCNewMexico/>* (AI Captions) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/ICS2021RECS <https://archive.org/details/ICS2021RECS>* *PHOTO*: Jim Schlichting *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14828/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Book Announcement: Digital Black Feminism
by Catherine Knight Steele 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

Book Announcement: *Digital Black Feminism (NYU Press)* <https://nyupress.org/9781479808380/digital-black-feminism/> Catherine Knight Steele, University of Maryland Traces the longstanding relationship between technology and Black feminist thought Black women are at the forefront of some of this century’s most important discussions about technology: trolling, online harassment, algorithmic bias, and influencer culture. But, Catherine Knight Steele argues that Black women’s relationship to technology began long before the advent of Twitter or Instagram. To truly “listen to Black women,” Steele points to the history of Black feminist technoculture in the United States and its ability to decenter white supremacy and patriarchy in a conversation about the future of technology. Using the virtual beauty shop as a metaphor, Digital Black Feminism walks readers through the technical skill, communicative expertise, and entrepreneurial acumen of Black women’s labor—born of survival strategies and economic necessity—both on and offline. Positioning Black women at the center of our discourse about the past, present, and future of technology, Steele offers a through-line from the writing of early twentieth-century Black women to the bloggers and social media mavens of the twenty-first century. She makes connections among the letters, news articles, and essays of Black feminist writers of the past and a digital archive of blog posts, tweets, and Instagram stories of some of the most well-known Black feminist writers of our time. Linking narratives and existing literature about Black women’s technology use in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century, Digital Black Feminism traverses the bounds between historical and archival analysis and empirical internet studies, forcing a reconciliation between fields and methods that are not always in conversation. As the work of Black feminist writers now reaches its widest audience online, Steele offers both hopefulness and caution on the implications of Black feminism becoming a digital product. *"This book is a must-read in a time when we need to redouble our commitments to social justice. Catherine Knight Steele helps us understand and celebrate the powerful work that Black feminists do to make the world a better place." ~Safiya Umoja Noble, author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism*

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your help taking/circulating a survey on TDM--Thank you!!
by Patricia Aufderheide 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

In the Right to Research network<https://www.wcl.american.edu/impact/initiatives-programs/pijip/impact/right…> at American University, we're looking into the obstacles researchers face when doing text/datamining (TDM). We're hoping you could help us by taking it, if you do TDM, and by circulating to your networks this survey: https://american.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0PPI55AouzaRwmG It's anonymous, and stored securely. We are deeply grateful for your interest and help! 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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CFP: Theme issue on online videos and global communication
by Louisa Shu Ying Ha 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

Online Media & Global Communication eISSN: 2749-9049 Sponsored by Center for Global Public Opinion Research of China and School of Journalism and Communication, Shanghai International Studies University, China E-mail: OMGC(a)shisu.edu.cn CALL FOR PAPERS THEMED ISSUE: SHORT VIDEOS AND GLOBAL COMMUNICATON (500 word abstracts due Dec. 1, 2021) TikTok as a short-video app is taking the world by storm as the most downloaded mobile app in 2020 and its average user usage has surpassed YouTube in the U.S. Other social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Wechat/Tencent also increased their video postings. How do these short videos affect people’s perceptions and knowledge of their own countries and other countries? How are short online video use similar or different between countries? We invite scholars from around the world to submit their research on shorts videos to our journal which will have a theme on this topic in our second issue in 2022. Online Media & Global Communication is a new free open access English language refereed journal published quarterly by De Gruyter and sponsored by Shanghai International Studies University. It aims to publish high quality, innovative and original research on global communication especially in the use of global online media platforms such as Facebook, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Whatspps, Weibo, WeChat, Wikipedia, web sites, blogs, etc., in an effort to make theoretical contributions on online media and global communication, particularly in but not limited to the Global South. This journal will address the contemporary concerns about the effects and operations of global digital media platforms on international relations, international public opinion, fake news and propaganda dissemination, consumer behavior as well as the balance of voices in the world. Topics of interest but not limited to these topics for the themed issue: 1. Social media influencers on TikTok and short videos: Political, social, cultural and commercial Effects across countries and cross-national comparison. 2. How do short videos change national and city images in global communication? 3. How can short videos contribute to new research methods in studying global communication? 4. How do short videos differ from television in shaping global media news coverage and global youth culture? 5. How do different national governments or cultural tourism agencies in different countries use short videos or how do such use change relationship among countries? 6. How do online short videos transform the journalism practices of news media? 7. Under the global COVID-19 pandemic, how do online videos create new models and practices or affect current health communication? 8. How do national governments and the public perceive the algorithm used by these short video sites from privacy to social and political impacts such as the cancel culture? The journal publishes six-language abstracts in United Nations official languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish). This journal adopts a dual track review system as the first in the field of communication. Two review tracks are offered to the authors and authors must choose either one before final submission: 1) double blind (masked) review track that both authors and reviewers do not know the identity of the author; 2) single blind (masked) review track that reviewers will know the identity of the author and the authors are free to cite their own works and refer to themselves in the manuscript. Submitters who have posted their manuscript or its earlier version elsewhere online or with more than five self-citations will undergo the review process using the single-blind review track. All original submissions are in English with reviews by two or more reviewers. We adopt a structured abstract format with purpose, method, highlight of findings, practical implications, social and theoretical implications, originality and contribution so that just the abstract would be informative to the readers. Authors pay no fee to publish in the journal. During the first year of publication, each accepted article will receive US$200 cash reward. Author Submission Guideline: 1. Publication Ethics. The journal will follow the Committee on Publication Ethics guideline for both reviewers and the authors. https://publicationethics.org/ 2. Original Submissions. All unsolicited authors’ submissions must be original and have not been published in English or other languages, either in print or online publications. Manuscripts which have been posted online such as university web sites, in preprint servers or file-sharing sites must self-identify such posting in the cover letter and undergo single-masked review. 1. Submission procedure: Authors are welcome to submit abstracts to the editor to determine the appropriateness of the manuscript before submitting the full-length manuscript to our journal e-mail: OMGC(a)shisu.edu.cn 2. Cover Letter. All new submissions must include a cover letter explaining whether the manuscript is the first time the dataset was being used. If not, then the author should report previous articles or submissions to other journals using the same dataset and explaining the advancement of knowledge of the submitted manuscript over previous articles and other manuscripts under review in other journals. 3. Abstracts and keywords. Manuscripts must include a structured abstract format no longer than 300 words in total (purpose, method, findings, implications, value) and proper keywords to help identify appropriate reviewers. See example on journal web site. Up to eight keywords can be accepted. The keywords must include country/region of study, research method, and the name of the online media platform being studied such as YouTube or category such as social media. 4. Citing your own works. When authors choose double-masked review track, excessive self-citations (more than 5) are discouraged and will be viewed as an attempt to identify the author. Such manuscript will undergo single-masked review automatically. Authors going through a double-masked review track who need to cite their own previous works should cite them in the\same way as other authors. There is no need to specify the work is written by the author. The only exceptions are in press or forthcoming articles. In those cases, the in-text reference should be (Authors, in press/forthcoming). In single-masked review track, authors are free to cite and refer to their own works in the text of the manuscript and there is no limit on self-citations as long as they are appropriate. 5. Citation style. The journal generally adopts APA style 7th edition in general and publishes in American English. However, in the reference section, authors are required to provide the full name of each cited author such as Chen, Daiwen and Kaoqiu Lu (2020), instead of initials, to help identify authors in non-English speaking countries who have little differentiation by last name. Louisa Ha, Ph.D. Professor of Research Excellence, School of Media and Communication Interim Graduate Coordinator Bowling Green State University Founding Editor-in-Chief, Online Media and Global Communication https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=9zeJXnEAA Twitter: @LouisaHaBGSU

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2021 Internet Law and Policy Foundry Fellowship
by Joly MacFie 01 Dec '21

01 Dec '21

https://www.ilpfoundry.us/2021-internet-law-and-policy-foundry-fellowship-a… The Internet Law and Policy Foundry is excited to announce that applications for our next cohort of fellows are now open! Fellows serve for a term of two years and receive a range of benefits including: - Professional development opportunities including mentorship programs and access to Fellow-only events - Access to a global network of internet law and policy professionals who work on a diverse range of issues - Complimentary admission to the Foundry’s public, fee-based events for the duration of their term - And more! Applications close on 12/14 at 5 pm ET. APPLY NOW! <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSflHlkBExxPt0U-pAcgPpKWZEtbo5Cn41L…> If you have any questions, please email ilpfoundry(a)gmail.com <https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=ilpfoundry@gmail.com> -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Digital Capitalism
by Christian Fuchs 30 Nov '21

30 Nov '21

Christian Fuchs. 2022. Digital Capitalism: Media, Communication and Society Volume Three. London: Routledge. Christian Fuchs. 2022. Foundations of Critical Theory. Media, Communication and Society Volume Two. London: Routledge. More information and sample chapters: https://fuchsc.uti.at/books/digital-capitalism-media-communication-and-soci… https://fuchsc.uti.at/books/foundations-of-critical-theory/ “Digital Capitalism” illuminates what it means to live in an age of digital capitalism. Subjects covered include: digital positivism; administrative big data analytics; the role and relations of patriarchy, slavery, and racism in the context of digital labour; digital alienation; the role of social media in the capitalist crisis; the relationship between imperialism and digital labour; alternatives such as trade unions and class struggles in the digital age; platform co-operatives; digital commons; and public service Internet platforms. It also analyses specific examples, including the digital labour of Foxconn and Pegatron workers, software engineers at Google, online freelancers, as well as the political economy of targeted-advertising-based Internet platforms such as Facebook, Google, YouTube, and Instagram. “Foundations of Critical Theory” explores the foundations of a critical theory of society, clarifying and updating key concepts in critical theory – such as the dialectic, critique, alienation, class, capitalism, ideology, and racial capitalism. Media, Communication and Society is a series of books where Christian Fuchs explores the political economy of communication in contemporary society. Further volumes will analyse topics such as digital fascism, digital ethics, digital democracy, the digital public sphere, and digital alternatives.

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Call for ICA FSD Awards 2022 - including BRANDNEW award for emerging scholars
by K Eckert 29 Nov '21

29 Nov '21

Dear Everyone Please spread the word about the 2022 awards of the Feminist Scholarship Division (FSD) of the International Communication Association (ICA). It contains its long-standing Teresa Award for the Advancement of Feminist Scholarship as well as a BRANDNEW award for emerging scholars, the Helen Award for Emerging Feminist Scholarship, to be given out the first time in Paris in May 2022. Below is the call and at the bottom also a link to the text. Kind Regards Stine Eckert 2022 Feminist Scholarship Division Awards The Feminist Scholarship Division of International Communication Association announces calls for two awards: * Teresa Award for the Advancement in Feminist Scholarship * Helen Award for Emergent Feminist Scholarship Teresa Award: Call for Nominations and Selection Committee The Feminist Scholarship Division of International Communication Association seeks: (1) nominees for the Teresa Awardfor the Advancement of Feminist Scholarship, (2) volunteers willing to serve on the Teresa Award Selection Committee to help choose among the nominees. The Teresa Award The annual Teresa Awardfor the Advancement of Feminist Scholarship recognizes a senior feminist scholar who made a significant contribution to scholarship in communication and media studies. The awardee will receive $1000 and a plaque. The Division will hold a reception to celebrate the award during the 2022 International Communication Association conference in Paris, France. Selection committee members Those wishing to serve on the committee should hold a doctoral degree and have a depth of familiarity with feminist communication scholarship. Service on the committee requires a commitment of time in February after the nominations are in. Please indicate your interest in serving on the Teresa Award Committee by sending an email to the co-chairs of the Teresa Award Committee, Natalia Rybas (natrybas(a)gmail.com) and Elizabeth Toth (eltoth(a)umd.edu) Award nominations The nominating materials should be submitted to the co-chairs no later than February 1, 2022. Those interested in nominating self or another feminist scholar for the award should inform co-chairs of the Teresa Award Committee about their intent. The Teresa Award recognizes work from established feminist scholars who have made significant contributions to the development, reach and influence of feminist scholarship in communication and/or media studies. While the Teresa Award Committee favors research that consists of multiple projects and publications that have made a clear, coherent and sustained contribution to the advancement of feminist scholarship over time, single works and/or activities which have been highly influential in the field of feminist communication scholarship may also qualify someone for nomination. The strongest nominees for this award will have accomplished one or more of the following: (1) opened up new theoretical and/or methodological territory in feminist research; (2) made other important contributions to the advancement of feminist scholarship; and (3) engaged in feminist activism within academia that advanced feminist scholarship Any scholar who has made significant contributions to shaping the field of feminist communication and media studies may be nominated. They do not have be a member of Feminist Scholarship Division.We encourage self-nominations as well as the nomination by others. Members of the Teresa Award Committee may not submit nominees for consideration. Nominations should include the following: (1) One letter of nomination, written in 12-point font and not exceeding two pages. Letters must: (a) provide full name and affiliation of the person being nominated, (b) specify the relevant body of work and/or other contributions made; (c) address the work’s and/or activity’s contributions to feminist scholarship (in the case of research, this will involve theoretical and methodological assessments); and (d) make a case for its influence and impact on the advancement of feminist scholarship. (2) Current CV of the scholar being nominated. (3) Three representative examples of the work cited, where appropriate. If the example is book length, only the title page, copyright page, table of contents, and one chapter should be sent for that work. Nomination packets should be submitted electronically to the co-chairs of the Teresa Award Committee, Natalia Rybas and Elizabeth Toth at natrybas@gmail.comandeltoth@umd.eduby February 1, 2022. The Teresa Award was established in 2007 through an endowed fund created by Dr. Yoo Jae Song of Ewha Women’s University in Korea to honor her mother, Dr. Teresa Kyuguen Cho, a Korean American and a pediatrician, who passed away in Philadelphia in 2006 at the age of 83. We accept nominations from scholars who publish in languages other than English. However, there are certain issues that the nominators must be aware of: accessibility of the materials to the group who use English as the language of operation, and fairness to all nominees who either publish or do not publish in English. We recommend that the nominators primarily follow the instructions in the award call. The nomination letter and the CV should be in English. To facilitate accessibility, we ask the nominator to provide at least 1-2-page abstracts in English for the work published in other languages and to identify 2-3 bilingual scholars who might be asked to participate in the deliberation process. If the nominators consider it appropriate, a publication in English can be included among the three required for the nomination. Helen Award: Call for (Self)-Nominations The Feminist Scholarship Division of the International Communication Association seeks nominees for the Helen Award for Emerging Feminist Scholarship. The Helen Award The Helen Award for Emerging Feminist Scholarship is an annual award for an emerging feminist scholar in communication and/or media studies. The aim of the award is to recognize and support those whose early research and leadership demonstrate strong contributions to date and significant promise for future development in feminist communication and/or media studies. The award winner will receive a certificate and a stipend of $300. The award will be presented to the awardee during the 2022 International Communication Association conference in Paris, France. Award Nominations The Helen Award recognizes work from emerging feminist scholars whose scholarship will have demonstrated substantive efforts to shape feminist scholarship in terms of theory, methodology, and/or pursuit of inquiry that help address the role of communication and media in the gendered power dynamics at institutional (including within media/journalism institutions), societal, and/or global levels. The winner will be a productive early- to mid-career scholar who has received a Ph.D. (or other terminal degree) within 10 years prior to the nomination. The winner’s body of work is expected to demonstrate a sustained commitment to feminist scholarship. While the committee for the Helen Award for Emerging Feminist Scholarship favors nominees who have produced multiple projects and publications that show clear, coherent, and sustained potential for significant contributions to feminist scholarship over time, single works and/or activities that have had a demonstrable impact on feminist communication and media scholarship may also qualify. Nominees should have have engaged with the Feminist Scholarship Division of the International Communication Association. We encourage self-nominations as well as nomination by others. Members of the Helen Award Committee may not submit nominees for consideration. Requirements for a (self-)nomination (1) One letter of nomination, not to exceed two pages, in English. Letter must: (a) provide the full name and affiliation of the person being nominated; (b) address the works and/or activities that demonstrate the nominee’s strides toward significant contributions in feminist research (in the case of research, this will involve theoretical and methodological assessments); and (c) make a case for its demonstrable potential for or impact on feminist communication and media scholarship. (2) Current CV of the nominee, in English. (3) Three representative examples of the work cited, where appropriate. If the example is book length, only the title page, copyright page, table of contents, and one chapter should be sent for that work. (4) Note on language: We accept nominations from scholars who publish in languages other than English. However, nominators must be aware of certain issues, including the following two: accessibility of the materials to the group who use English as the language of operation and fairness to all nominees who either publish or do not publish in English. We recommend that the nominators primarily follow the instructions in the award call. The nomination letter and the CV should be in English. To facilitate accessibility, we ask the nominator to provide at least 1-2-page abstracts in English for the work published in other languages and to identify 2-3 bilingual scholars who might be asked to participate in the deliberation process. If the nominators consider it appropriate, a publication in English can be included among the three required for the nomination. Due date Nomination packets should be submitted electronically in a single PDFto the chair of the Helen Award Committee, Stine Eckert at stine.eckert(a)wayne.eduby February 1, 2022. The Helen Award for Emerging Feminist Scholarship was established in 2020. The first award will be given in 2022. Dr. Linda Steiner made a significant contribution to establish this award, which is named for her mother, Helen Steiner. Born in Prague in 1927, Helen came to the US with her family in 1939. Having earned a BA from Vassar College and an MS from SUNY-Albany, she taught elementary school for several decades, in Idaho Falls and in upstate New York. She is famous for her interest in politics, witty sense of humor, loyalty to her friends and community, and her volunteer work and philanthropy. You can also find the call here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z60sQiBFzFbiT_PRvdoFo06e_kEnTR-frN-F7tz… Please spread the word to anyone interested. Stine Eckert, Ph.D. (she/her) Associate Professor Department of Communication Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48201 @stineeckert http://stineeckert.com/ https://s.wayne.edu/nsf-advance<https://s.wayne.edu/nsf-advance/>

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survey instruments for covid or post covid cities?
by Annette Markham 29 Nov '21

29 Nov '21

Hello AoIRers, I realise this might be a tangential topic to the community, but I need help finding some survey instruments that would be useful to explore how COVID has impacted city/urban life. There are many directions such a survey could take. I’m working with a team to build a survey that would get at some of the current attitudes and perceptions about urban/city life in a post covid era. We’re finding some surveys on city satisfaction, social support, economic impact, wellbeing and mental health, and attitudes/perceptions of regulations/lockdowns. These are all great and I’m wondering, have any entities ingeniously combined some different instruments to look at a range of factors? In any case, before we try to build a survey instrument, I’m wanting to see different examples. Help? Have you completed, heard or, or developed any surveys about post-covid impacts? That are targeted at the social, economic, wellbeing impact at the level of the “city”? Any examples would likely be super useful, as we’re trying to do a rapid scan of various survey protocols, to consider what direction we might want to take. THANKS in advance for anything you might have, and we’ll happily compile a list of what you find, should there be interest in this topic. Best, Annette ----------------------------------------::------------------------------------------------ Annette N. Markham, PhD Professor of Media and Communication and Co-Director, DERC (Digital Ethnography Research Centre) RMIT University, Melbourne City Campus, Australia Professor (MSO, on leave), Information Studies & Digital Design, Aarhus University, Denmark https://annettemarkham.com<https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fannettema…> RMIT email: Annette.Markham(a)rmit.edu.au<mailto:Annette.Markham@rmit.edu.au> Twitter: @annettemarkham ----------------------------------------::------------------------------------------------

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Open Rank *Information Justice* searches at Northeastern University
by Joseph Reagle 29 Nov '21

29 Nov '21

Hello all, Northeastern is hiring for multiple open rank positions in Information Justice, with homes in Communication Studies, Journalism, and Design. Please see the description below, forward on as appropriate, and let me know if you have any questions -- I'm on the search committee and am happy to help. —Joseph ================================= https://careers.hrm.northeastern.edu/en-us/job/508568/open-rank-professor-i… DESCRIPTION Northeastern University’s College of Arts, Media and Design invites applications for an open-rank cluster search in the nascent field of Information Justice. Building on recent developments in algorithmic accountability, new newsroom technologies and journalism tools, critical information studies, critical data studies, and universal design, this multidisciplinary area of inquiry addresses issues of bias, diversity, equity, and exclusion in information and global media systems. We welcome a diverse range of applicants whose scholarship, newsroom experiences, design and visual communication practice, journalistic work, and/or public impact work in Information Justice would contribute to our programs in Information Justice in Journalism, Art + Design, or Communication Studies. RESPONSIBILITIES We are particularly interested in candidates who bring an interdisciplinary perspective and whose research/creative practice and teaching align with one of the following high-priority areas related to Information Justice: * In Communication Studies, public and community health communication, health information access and equity, and/or health (dis)information campaigns; * In Design: visual communication in the public sphere focused on influence, advocacy, and social engagement in civic, health, and environmental issues; * In Journalism: justice-oriented data investigations, data-driven media ecosystems analyses, impactful data-driven & digital storytelling, community-grounded partnerships. Successful candidates will be primarily appointed in the School of Journalism, Department of Art + Design, or Department of Communication Studies. Split appointments between these units, with other units in the College of Arts, Media and Design (Architecture, Music, Theatre), or elsewhere at Northeastern University are possible, including the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, the Institute for Experiential AI, the Ethics Institute, and the Institute for Race, Technology, and Social Justice. QUALIFICATIONS Candidates must have a PhD, MFA, or other relevant terminal degree by the appointment start date.

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Starting soon: What Makes an Online Community? Social Media Workshop with Prof Axel Bruns
by Olga Boichak 29 Nov '21

29 Nov '21

Please join us for the 2021 Social Media Workshop: '*What Makes an Online Community?*' featuring a plenary by AoIR Past President Professor Axel Bruns (Queensland University of Technology) and a series of lightning talks by University of Sydney researchers: Prof. Eduardo Altmann, Ms Venessa Paech, Dr. Aim Sinpeng, Dr. Olga Boichak, and Dr. Tristram Alexander. The event will be held virtually via Zoom, join via the link below: *When: Tuesday, November 30th 10:00am AEDT *(Monday, November 29th 6:00pm EST) What time is it for me? <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=What+Makes+an+Onl…> Where: https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/88452302048 *Plenary: Online Communities and Where to Find Them: Conceptual and Analytical Frameworks (Prof. Axel Bruns, QUT)*Groups, communities, crowds, audiences, publics: the terms we use to describe groupings of online participants are varied, and differ from field to field: the ‘communities’ detected by network mapping algorithms might not qualify as communities from a media and cultural studies perspective, for example. This talk distinguishes some of the key terms used in describing online groupings, and outlines the analytical frameworks that may be used to distinguish them. *Speaker Biographies * *Axel Bruns *is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Professor in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. His books include Are Filter Bubbles Real? (2019) and Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere (2018), and the edited collections Digitizing Democracy (2019), the Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics (2016), and Twitter and Society (2014). His current work focusses on the study of user participation in social media spaces, and its implications for our understanding of the contemporary public sphere, drawing especially on innovative new methods for analysing 'big social data'. *Eduardo Altmann *is a Professor in Mathematics at the University of Sydney. He is a mathematician/physicist with expertise in the dynamics of natural language, including the use of automated text classification methods and information theoretic measures for classifying text similarity. He, along with co-workers, developed stochastic block model methods for network and text analysis. *Venessa Paech *is an internationally regarded online community expert and educator and a PhD Candidate studying the intersection of AI and online communities at the University of Sydney. She co-founded Australian Community Managers (ACM), the national centre for training and resources. Venessa has developed and teaches the first post-graduate online community management Unit for the University of Sydney. *Olga Boichak *is a Lecturer in Digital Cultures at the University of Sydney, Department of Media and Communications. She has a track record of publications on digital war, legitimising state power, transnational mobilisation, and algorithmic surveillance, and her research interests span networks, narratives, and cultures of activism in the digital age. *Aim Sinpeng *is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. She is the author of *Opposing Democracy in the Digital Age: The Yellow Shirts in Thailand *(University of Michigan Press, 2021) and co-editor of *From Grassroots Activism to Disinformation: Social Media in Southeast Asia *(ISEAS, 2020). *Tristram Alexander *is a Senior Lecturer in Physics at the University of Sydney. He is a physicist with expertise in the modelling of nonlinear dynamical systems with many interacting elements, including social media dynamics. He has developed a suite of processing tools to identify and analyse communities in Twitter stream data.

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