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The Capitol Coup: One Year Later
by Alice E. Marwick 06 Jan '22

06 Jan '22

Hi all, Sorry for the late notice, but we are commemorating the 1 year anniversary of the attempted coup on the US capitol with this event today and tomorrow. All the scholars represented integrate a robust theory of digital politics and social media into their work, so I think it's very AOIR-relevant, especially if you're interested in the effects of tech on democracy/public life. Info: Today the UNC Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP) and George Washington University’s Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics (IDDP) <https://iddp.gwu.edu/> are hosting The Capitol Coup One Year Later: How Research Can Assess and Counter Threats to Democracy <https://citap.unc.edu/capitol-coup-one-year-later/>, a two-day conference exploring key questions surrounding the attempted coup at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. All of these events are now virtual :( At 12pm there will be a keynote address from Emily Van Duyn <https://www.emilyvanduyn.com/>, the author of the new book *Democracy Lives in Darkness: How and Why People Keep their Politics Secret. <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/democracy-lives-in-darkness-9780197…> *(OUP, 2021). Dr. Van Duyn is an assistant professor of communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Registration and details for 1/6 are here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-capitol-coup-one-year-later-keynote-addres… On January 7 we will have keynote addresses from Khadijah Costley White <http://www.khadijahwhite.com/> and Francesca Tripodi <https://ftripodi.com/>. Dr. Costley White is an associate professor in the Rutgers School of Communication and the author of *The Branding of Right-Wing Activism: The News Media and the Tea Party <https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/978019087931…> *(OUP, 2018)*. *Dr. Tripodi is an assistant professor in the UNC School of Information and Library Science and a senior researcher at CITAP. Tripodi is the author of the forthcoming book *The Propagandists’ Playbook: How Conservative Elites Manipulate Search and Threaten Democracy *(Yale University Press). Registration and details for 1/7 are here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-capitol-coup-one-year-later-keynote-addres… We hope that you can join us for these public events. Thanks all! Alice Alice E. Marwick, PhD (she/her) Associate Professor, Department of Communication Principal Researcher, Center for Information, Technology and Public Life (CITAP) University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill amarwick(a)gmail.com http://www.tiara.org <http://www.tiara.org> http://citap.unc.edu <http://citap.unc.edu>

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12 Streams 2021 #10 - How we talk about Encryption - Natalie Campbell & Ryan Polk
by Joly MacFie 06 Jan '22

06 Jan '22

Indeed we have slipped a couple days on the 12 Days of Streams, nevertheless we persevere. The ISOC Fundamentals series continues to be a fruitful resource, and today we have a workshop on encryption advocacy. ISOC Live posted: "Today, Thursday January 6 2021, at 08:30 EST (13:30 UTC) in the tenth installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ annual highlights, we feature a session the Internet Society's Fundamentals Series in April 2021, focusing on ad" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-10>Today, *Thursday January 6 2022*, at *08:30 EST* (13:30 UTC) in the tenth installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘*12 Days of Streams <https://isoc.live/?s=%2312streams>*‘ annual highlights, we feature a session the *Internet Society's Fundamentals Series <https://isoc.live/isoc-fundamentals/>* in April 2021, focusing on advocacy for *encryption <https://www.internetsociety.org/issues/encryption/>*. *PRESENTERS* *Natalie Campbell*, Director, Community Organizing and Public Advocacy, Internet Society *Ryan Polk*, Senior Policy Advisor, Internet Society *MODERATOR* *Nick Hyrka*, Regional Community Manager - Europe, Internet Society *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-10 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2021-10> *(Open captions) *TWITTER #12Streams #encryption @ndunleavy @Ryan_ISOC @InternetSociety @ISOC_Community #ISOCFundamentals #e2ee #GlobalEncryption* *SIMULCASTShttps://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/>* *ARCHIVEhttps://archive.org/details/12streams2021-10 <https://archive.org/details/12streams2021-10>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14968/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022): Third Call for Contributions
by Announce Announcements 06 Jan '22

06 Jan '22

*** Third Call for Contributions *** ACM International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2022) 7–9 September, 2022, 5* St. Raphael Resort & Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/ Scope The ACM GoodIT conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions related to the application of information technologies (IT) to social good. Social good is typically defined as something that provides a benefit to the general public. In this context, clean air and water, Internet connection, education, and healthcare are all good examples of social goods. However, new media innovations and the explosion of online communities have added new meaning to the term. Social good is now about global citizens uniting to unlock the potential of individuals, technology, and collaboration to create a positive societal impact. GoodIT solicits papers that address important research challenges related to, but not limited to: • Citizen science • Civic intelligence • Decentralized approaches to IT • Digital solutions for Cultural Heritage • Environmental monitoring • Ethical computing • Frugal solutions for IT • Game, entertainment, and multimedia applications • Health and social care • IT for automotive • IT for development • IT for education • IT for smart living • Privacy, trust and ethical issues in ICT solutions • Smart governance and e-administration • Social informatics • Socially responsible IT solutions • Sustainable cities and transportation • Sustainable IT • Technology addressing the digital divide Main Track Paper Submission The papers should not exceed six (6) pages (US letter size) double-column, including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/) They must be original works and must not have been previously published. At least one of the authors of all accepted papers must register and present the work at the conference; otherwise, the paper will not be published in the proceedings. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the conference proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library. Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue in the journal MDPI Sensors, where the theme of the special issue will be "Application of Information Technology (IT) to Social Good" (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/topical_collection_good…) Specifically 5 papers will be invited free of charge and another 5 papers will get a 20% discount on the publication fees. Furthermore, MDPI Sensors will sponsor a Best Paper Award with the amount of 400 CHF. Separate call-for-papers are announced for the special tracks (more information is available on the conference web site). Work-in-Progress and PhD Track Inside ACM GoodIT, the Work-in-Progress and PhD Track provides an opportunity to showcase interesting new work that is still at an early stage. We encourage practitioners and researchers to submit to the Work-in-Progress venue as it provides a unique opportunity for sharing valuable ideas, eliciting feedback on early-stage work, and fostering discussions and collaborations among colleagues. Moreover, this track provides a platform for PhD students to present and receive feedback on their ongoing research. Students at different stages of their research will have the opportunity to present and discuss their research questions, goals, methods and results. This is an opportunity to obtain guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and other PhD students working in research areas related to technologies for social good. Important: For this specific track, papers must not exceed four (4) pages (US letter size) double column, including figures, tables, and references in standard ACM format (https://cyprusconferences.org/goodit2022/index.php/authors/) Important Dates • Submission deadline for all types of contributions: 23 May 2022 • Notification of acceptance: 20 June 2022 • Camera-ready submission and author registration: 11 July 2022 Program Chairs • Costas Mourlas, University of Athens, Greece • Diogo Pacheco, University of Exeter, UK • Catia Prandi, University of Bologna, Italy WiP & PhD Track Chairs • Marco Furini, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy • Dimitris Gouscos, University of Athens, Greece • Barbara Guidi, University of Pisa, Italy

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Job posting: Lecturer in Digital Media and Society, Cardiff University
by Arne Hintz 06 Jan '22

06 Jan '22

Dear colleagues, this is just a quick reminder that we have an opening at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Culture (JOMEC) in Digital Media and Society. We are particularly interested in candidates working in the field of critical data studies and exploring new developments in data justice. https://krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?PageTyp… Best, Arne --- Lecturer in Digital Media and Society 13003BR Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies Teaching & Research To deliver high-quality and research-led teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and contribute to the research record of the School through commitment to carrying 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. To advance the School’s renowned work in the field of digital media, critical data studies, and data justice. This post is full time and open-ended. Salary: £43,434 - £50,296 per annum (Grade 7) Closing date: Sunday, 9 January 2022 ---------------- Dr Arne Hintz Reader | Co-Director Data Justice Lab | Director MA Digital Media and Society School of Journalism, Media and Culture | Cardiff University Two Central Square | Cardiff CF10 1FS Email: HintzA(a)cardiff.ac.uk | Tel: +44 (0)29 208 76281 | Twitter: @arne_hz Fellow | Center for Media, Data and Society | Central European University

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Hand hygiene survey to help tackle the spread of Covid-19 and other diseases in the workplace.
by Sophie Rutter 06 Jan '22

06 Jan '22

Final call for survey participants Hi everyone, it would be really great if you could take part in this survey about hand hygiene in workplaces. The study aims to get a better understanding of the importance of hand hygiene to organisations, the potential for technology to manage hand hygiene, and how to promote hand hygiene compliance within the workplace. Participants and organisations will not be identifiable in any publications. The survey <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4mKC1X6d8z9Cdnl9xVY-3USLZp1Ek8L5…> will take approximately 10 minutes to complete (at the end of the survey, you can register for a chance to win one of ten £10 Love to Shop vouchers). Survey closes soon on 10 January. It would be really great to get all your opinions. This project is funded by Innovate UK to help tackle the spread of Covid-19 and other diseases in the workplace. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4mKC1X6d8z9Cdnl9xVY-3USLZp1Ek8L5… Thank you! Sophie Rutter -- Lecturer in Information Management Research Ethics Coordinator - PGT iLab <https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/is/research/facilities#iLab> (usability lab) Development Lead Chair Elect, ASIS&T European Chapter www.handhygieneatwork.com Information School, Room 234, Regent Court, 211 Portobello, Sheffield, S1 4DP

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Job alert: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Oxford Internet Institute / Fairwork
by Mark Graham 06 Jan '22

06 Jan '22

Dear colleagues, Please share the following role with anyone who might be interested in joining our team at the Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford). Full details of the job are available at: https://fair.work/en/fw/blog/join-our-team-we-are-hiring-a-cloudwork-postdo… Thanks, and Happy New Year! Mark The Oxford Internet Institute seeks to hire a Cloudwork Postdoctoral Researcher for the Fairwork Project The University of Oxford’s Fairwork project, partnered with WZB (Berlin Social Science Center) <https://wzb.eu/en>, is recruiting a Cloudwork Postdoctoral Researcher. This is a full-time, fixed-term position, with remuneration at grade 8 (£42,149 – £50,296 per annum), starting as soon as possible until August 2023. The closing date for applications is midday, 5 February 2022. About Fairwork Fairwork is an action-research project that currently operates in 26 countries. We research working conditions in the platform economy, in order to develop ‘fairness ratings’ for digital labour platforms like Uber, Helpling and Deliveroo (see examples here <https://fair.work/en/fw/ratings/>). We use these ratings as a lever to improve pay and conditions for platform workers, through media and consumer pressure. The project currently operates in twenty six countries on five continents, and studies both geographically-tethered gig economy platforms and cloudwork <https://fair.work/en/ratings/cloudwork/> (or ‘remote work’) platforms. The Researcher position will involve co-leading the Fairwork Cloudwork project that scores platforms from around the world, and speaks to cloudworkers on every continent. Reporting to the Principal Investigator, the post holder will act as a researcher and the Cloudwork Lead of the Fairwork project. Fairwork’s action research approach intends not just to understand the world, but to change it. By bringing workers, platforms, scholars, labour researchers and policymakers to the table, we work to collaboratively develop and embed principles of fair work into the script of the gig economy. Fundamental to the project is a commitment to being participatory and non-hierarchical within our communities: we are all—workers, unions, platforms, regulators, academics—the experts, and we all have co-developed this project. Our ultimate aim is to understand, and counter, some of the forces that disempower gig workers across the world. Over the past three years, we have mobilized a unique and growing transnational network of social justice-minded scholars <https://fair.work/en/fw/about/people/> from over ten countries in pursuit of this planetary goal. In order to effectively advocate for gig workers everywhere, we believe it necessary for our team too to reflect a diversity of backgrounds, cultures, perspectives and more. In growing our team, we value and welcome the unique contributions that applicants can bring in terms of their education, opinions, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, ethnicity, race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, age, religion, disability, and beliefs. We actively strive to build and nurture a culture of empathy, inclusiveness, and respect. About the Cloudwork Postdoctoral Researcher Selection Criteria: Essential - Hold a relevant postgraduate degree in sociology, geography, anthropology, economics, development studies, social policy, or related fields. - Strong publication record and familiarity with the existing literature and research in the field. - Academic or professional experience, and an established career, related to the gig economy, platform work, remote work, the digital economy, decent work, or precarious/temporary work. - Possess sufficient specialist knowledge in the discipline to develop research projects and methodologies. - Ability to manage own academic research and associated activities. - Previous experience of contributing to publications/presentations. - Experience with survey design and analysis. - Excellent communication skills, including the ability to write for publication, present research proposals and results, and represent the research group at meetings. - Ability to organise complex sets of information, and develop granular work schedules. - Experience coordinating a diverse set of stakeholders. - Ability to independently plan and manage a research project, including a research budget - Ability to raise research funds through making grant applications. - Experience studying platform work in any of our countries of interest, and its relationships to inequality, race, gender, culture, and society. - An interest in understanding obstacles faced by platform workers. Desirable - Experience of supervising staff - Experience of managing a research budget - Experience of making grant applications Equality of Opportunity Entry into employment with the University and progression within employment will be determined only by personal merit and the application of criteria which are related to the duties of each particular post and the relevant salary structure. In all cases, ability to perform the job will be the primary consideration. No applicant or member of staff shall be discriminated against because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. Responsibilities - Develop a survey instrument about the job quality in the gig economy, conduct research, analyse detailed and complex data from a variety of sources - Doing primary and secondary research, and drawing on existing data collected by the Fairwork team in order to evaluate platform companies against principles of Fairwork. - Having operational responsibility for multiple sub-areas of work within the bigger Fairwork project, and giving input to all key decision-making project-wide. - Regularly liaising with project stakeholders, and supervision of some of the project researchteam who are external to the OII. Agree clear task objectives, organise, and delegate work to other members of the team. - Disseminating the ‘fair work’ rating criteria in collaboration with the PI and project team. - Collaborate in the preparation of research publications, chapters, summaries, and reports. - Extensive travel to conduct research, both alone and with partners, to investigate and analyse wider issues shaping platform work in field sites. - Small scale project management and the co-ordination of multiple aspects of work to meet deadlines. - Represent the research group at external meetings/seminars, either with other members of the group or alone. - Prepare regular update reports to the funder and other collaborators. - Disseminate findings in the media. - Leading efforts to maintain a constant public profile (blogs, social media, short reports, etc.) - Managing the project’s stakeholder relationships. - Maintaining an awareness of key project deadlines and helping to steer the team towards them. - Leading in the organisation of workshops and an international conference about fair work. - Raise research funds through grant applications and manage delegated budgets. - Share responsibility for shaping the research group’s plans and the writing of group- funding applications for new research projects - Carry out collaborative projects with colleagues in partner institutions, and research groups - Other duties as may be required by the PI. Duration and Deadline This is a full-time, fixed-term position, with remuneration at grade Grade 8 (£42,149 – £50,296 per annum), starting as soon as possible until August 2023. The closing date for applications is midday, 3 February 2022.

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Applications close 30 Jan. 2022: FOUR Postdoctoral Research Associate Positions (five years, full-time) at the QUT Digital Media Research Centre
by Axel Bruns 06 Jan '22

06 Jan '22

Dear AoIRists, This is a reminder that applications for the four Postdoctoral Research Associate jobs at the QUT Digital Media Research Centre in Brisbane, Australia will close on 30 January 2022 (more details at https://bit.ly/laureateteam) I would love to see a strong field of applicants from AoIR for these positions, because obviously AoIR people are the best people. These five-year, full-time jobs will be part of the team of my Australian Laureate Fellowship, a major research project that investigates the drivers and dynamics of partisanship and polarisation in online communication. The project will develop new approaches to assessing a number of key dimensions of polarisation: in the journalistic content produced by different news outlets; in the audiences accessing and engaging with such content; in public debates, on social media platforms and elsewhere, about specific current issues; and in the networks of interconnection and interaction on and across social media platforms. (I've posted some more information about the project at https://snurb.info/laureate.) For this research, I'm looking for excellent Postdocs with expertise in one of more of the following research areas: journalism studies, media and communication studies, political science, social media analytics, computational social science, computational discourse analysis, social network analysis, issue mapping. The project takes an internationally comparative perspective, so I'm also explicitly interested in applicants from outside of Australia. (COVID-related travel restrictions should no longer be an issue by the time these jobs commence.) Applications for these positions are now open, and close on 30 January 2022; travel and visa processes permitting, the Postdocs should commence in mid-2022. More information about the application process is at https://bit.ly/laureateteam, where you can also find the full position description for these jobs. Note that applications must include a CV, response to selection criteria, and statement of research interests with respect to the aims of the Laureate project. I would also be very happy to speak to any prospective candidates ahead of their applications, to discuss their suitability for these positions. Please get in touch and we'll arrange a Zoom call in the coming weeks. I would also be extremely grateful if you could pass this on to anyone in your networks who might be interested in these positions (or knows people who would be). In a month or so I will also advertise the first four PhD scholarships related to this project, with applications closing in March and the PhD projects commencing in mid-2022. I'll have more details about those PhD opportunities then, but if you know of any prospective PhD students who may be interested in those scholarships please also feel free to direct them to me already. There's a little more information about these at https://snurb.info/laureate, too. Many thanks in advance for your help with this. -- Prof. Axel Bruns a.bruns(a)qut.edu.au - @snurb_dot_info - snurb.info Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology http://research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/ http://mappingonlinepublics.net/ Z6-503, Creative Industries Precinct, Kelvin Grove 4059, Australia GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, Qld. 4001, Australia -- CRICOS No.: 00213J ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society https://www.admscentre.org.au/ adms(a)rmit.edu.au @admscentre

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[Call for Participation] ACM WSDM 2022
by Ugur Kursuncu 05 Jan '22

05 Jan '22

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2022) Virtual Conference (was Tempe, Arizona, USA) February 21-25 2022 https://www.wsdm-conference.org/2022/ ------------- Early bird registration is open until January 18th 2022. ------------- WSDM (pronounced "wisdom") is one of the premier conferences on web-inspired research involving search and data mining. WSDM is a highly selective conference that includes invited talks, as well as refereed full papers. WSDM publishes original, high-quality papers related to search and data mining on the Web and the Social Web, with an emphasis on practical yet principled novel models of search and data mining, algorithm design and analysis, economic implications, and in-depth experimental analysis of accuracy and performance. The conference is now moved to a completely virtual format. This difficult decision is made in light of the latest surge in Omicron cases, enhanced travel restrictions from various parts of the world, and companies scrapping office-return deadlines without setting a new date. Conference program includes 7 workshops, 7 tutorials, 9 doctoral consortium presentations, 14 technical demos, 160 research paper presentations, industry day presentations, smart city day presentations, and 3 exciting keynote talks on timely topics: + Keynote talk by Yejin Choi (U. Washington) - Knowledge is Power: Symbolic Knowledge Distillation, Commonsense Morality, and Multimodal Script Knowledge + Keynote talk by George Karypis (Amazon) - Graph Neural Network Research at AWS AI + Keynote talk by Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Northeastern University) - Ethics Challenges in AI To register to the conference, please visit https://www.wsdm-conference.org/2022/registration/ Note that the early bid registration ends on January 18th 2022.

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CFP: Information Technology and Politics at the APSA 2022 conference
by Filippo Trevisan 05 Jan '22

05 Jan '22

Hi all, I wanted to remind everyone who may be interested that there’s time until January 18 (11:59pm Pacific Time) to submit proposals for the APSA 2022 conference. This year, I have the honor of serving as chair for the Information Technology and Politics (ITP) Section’s program. I look forward to your proposals and would be happy to answer any questions you may have (trevisan(a)american.edu) The conference is scheduled for September in Montréal, Canada. Here’s the conference website with a link to the submission system: https://connect.apsanet.org/apsa2022/ For a copy of the ITP Section’s own CFP and information about how to submit proposals, click here: https://t.co/EhO3nwbUUb Let me know in case you have questions and best wishes to all for the New Year that just started, Filippo ——— Dr. Filippo Trevisan Associate Professor - School of Communication Deputy Director - Institute on Disability and Public Policy (IDPP) American University 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC - 20016 Tel: +1 (202) 885 6930 Email: trevisan(a)american.edu<mailto:trevisan@american.edu> Web: www.filippotrevisan.net<http://www.filippotrevisan.net/> Twitter: @filippotrevisan<https://twitter.com/filippotrevisan> Now in paperback: “Disability Rights Advocacy Online: Voice, Empowerment and Global Connectivity<https://www.routledge.com/Disability-Rights-Advocacy-Online-Voice-Empowerme…>” NY: Routledge, 2017. All my publications: www.filippotrevisan.net/publications<http://www.filippotrevisan.net/publications>

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annotated bibliography of "internet studies" books?
by Chris Peterson 05 Jan '22

05 Jan '22

Hi all — I'm teaching an undergraduate survey course in internet topics / networked cultures this spring at MIT. The students basically do a variety of selected readings on current/perennial topics and build toward posing a research question + writing a lengthy term paper. In the latter half of the course, I'm planning to require them to read a scholarly book in the domain of internet studies (very big tent/broadly defined) and give a presentation to the class. The goal is to get them to see how a scholar poses a research question and approaches it for a monograph. I'd love to be able to give them an annotated "internet studies" bibliography to help guide them toward selecting a book that might be of interest to them topically (and, ideally, would be a good cornerstone of whatever their final research project might be, either topically or methodologically). I was looking through Air-L archives, and I found some annotated bibliographies of academic articles in certain areas (e.g. ethnography), or email threads on specific topics where people recommend books on that topic. Is anyone aware of any reasonably comprehensive and up to date "internet studies" annotated bibliographies that exist out there in the world that I could link them to? I figured that if anyone would know, it would be AoIR — like, I would imagine "any AoIR member's book(s)" would be a large (but not exhaustive) base of this bibliography. Best, — Chris

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