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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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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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WEBCAST TODAY: ISOC Hyderabad Webinar on Community Networks
by Joly MacFie 27 Nov '21

27 Nov '21

This is underway. There are live captions onscreen, but real time text is also available at https://bit.ly/3mBGNoQ ISOC Live posted: "On Sunday 10th October 2021 at 10:00-10:45 IST (00:30-01:15 UTC) the Internet Society India Hyderabad Chapter will host a webinar on Community Networks. Presenter Naveed Haq will explain how people come together to build and maintain the necessary infrast" <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/isoc-hyd-cn> [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/isoc-hyd-cn>On *Sunday 10th October 2021* at *10:00-10:45 IST* (00:30-01:15 UTC) the *Internet Society India Hyderabad Chapter <http://www.isocindiahyderabad.org/>* will host a webinar on *Community Networks <https://www.internetsociety.org/issues/community-networks/>*. Presenter *Naveed Haq <https://www.internetsociety.org/author/haq/>* will explain how people come together to build and maintain the necessary infrastructure for Internet connection. *Internet by the people, for the people*. *SPEAKER* *Naveed Ul Haq*, Asia-Pacific Regional Director for Infrastructure and Connectivity, *HOST* *K Mohan Raidu*, President, ISOC Hyderabad *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/isoc-hyd-cn <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/isoc-hyd-cn>* *PARTICIPATE VIA MEET https://meet.google.com/gnb-ghki-ipk <https://meet.google.com/gnb-ghki-ipk>* *REAL TIME TEXT (*see *ISOC.LIVE <https://isoc.live/?p=14629>)* *TWITTER #CommunityNetworks #isochyderabad <https://bit.ly/3s5Ox2Z> @NaveedHaq @ISOC_Community @isocapac #GrowInternet #SwitchItOn* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live <https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live>* *https://www.facebook.com/isocasiapacific/live <https://www.facebook.com/isocasiapacific/live>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/isoc-hyd-cn <https://archive.org/details/isoc-hyd-cn>* *IMAGE* Suusamyr Net, Kyrgyzstan, 2018 by Internet Society / Nyani Quarmyne / Panos Pictures *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14629/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Post: Assoc Prof/Programme Director BSc Information in Society UCL London
by Jordan, Tim 26 Nov '21

26 Nov '21

Dear all, My colleagues in the Department of Information Studies have a post just advertised with an emphasis on cross and inter-disciplinary research that also connects with that Department's strengths ( that include: Information and Data Science; Knowledge Organisation and Knowledge-based Systems; Digital Humanities; Information Management, Policy and Governance; Library and Information Studies; Archives and Records Management; and Publishing). Closing date 9th of Jan: https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fatsv7.wcn… Best Tim Tim Jordan Director Arts and Sciences Programme (BASc), Professor of Digital Cultures, University College London. My pronouns are he/him.

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Next week: NGI Policy Summit 2021 "Redistribute the internet"
by Katja Bego 26 Nov '21

26 Nov '21

Hi AoiR, I thought the following event might be of interest to some of you: Next week (Nov 29/Nov 30/Dec 1) the NGI Forward <https://research.ngi.eu> project, in collaboration with Nesta <https://www.nesta.org.uk>, IAM Internet <https://www.iam-internet.com>, and support from the European Commission will be hosting an online conference: "NGI Policy Summit: Redistribute the internet". We will talk about a wide range of exciting topics, from digital public infrastructure, to interoperability, to sustainability to the emergence of the Splinternet. If you are interested in joining us,* register here <https://summit.ngi.eu/>! * *Day 1: Keeping the Internet Global (November 29) * *2-4 CET* - *Marietje Schaake,* International Policy Director at Stanford University Cyber Policy Center - *Dame Wendy Hall*, Regius Professor of Computer Science, University of Southampton - *Peter Pomerantsev*, Author, Journalist and Senior Fellow, Agora Institute Johns Hopkins University - *Bart Groothuis, *Member of the European Parliament, VVD, Cybersecurity rapporteur *Day 2: A Sustainable and interoperable Internet (November 30) * *2-4 CET* - *Julia Reda, *Project lead of Control Copyright at the GFF in Germany, and fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation. - *Cory Doctorow,* Author, Activist and Journalist. - *Xiaowei Wang, *Technologist, Filmmaker, Artist and a Creative Director at Logic Magazine <https://logicmag.io/>. - *Mohan Gandhi, *Head of Research and Policy at the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance. *Day 3: The Internet as a Public Good* *2-5 CET * - *Alice Munyua, *Director of Africa Innovation at Mozilla - *Carina Lopes, *Co-founder of the Digital Future Society programme - *Ethan Zuckerman, *Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. - *Katja Bego, *Future Internet lead Nesta and Principal Investigator NGI Forward - *Interactive salon: *Conversation about digital public infrastructure, with Ethan Zuckerman, Sophie Bloemen (director of the Commons Network) and Paul Keller (Policy Director of Open Future). If you can't make it next week but would've been keen to join: do register, as we'll share the recordings with everyone afterwards. Hope to see some of you there, Katja -- Katja Bego | Principal Researcher, Explorations & Futures team, Nesta <https://www.nesta.org.uk/team/katja-bego/> and Project Lead of NGI Forward <https://research.ngi.eu/> | @katjabego <https://twitter.com/katjabego> -- 58 Victoria Embankment London EC4Y 0DS www.nesta.org.uk <http://www.nesta.org.uk/> | Twitter <http://www.twitter.com/nesta_uk> | LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1868227&goback=%2Egdr_1274367066783_1> | Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/pages/NESTA/116788428355432?v=wall&ref=sgm> If you no longer want to receive emails from Nesta, send an email to info(a)nesta.org.uk <mailto:info@nesta.org.uk>. This email and any attachments are confidential and may be subject to legal privilege. Any use, copying or disclosure other than by the intended recipient is unauthorised. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately or by email to info(a)nesta.org.uk <mailto:information@nesta.org.uk> and delete this message and any copies from your computer and network. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Nesta. Nesta is a company limited by guarantee and registered in England and Wales with company number 7706036 and charity number 1144091. Registered as a charity in Scotland number SC042833. Registered office: 58 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0DS. --

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New MA in Media, Tech and Democracy! Please share
by Patricia Aufderheide 25 Nov '21

25 Nov '21

Our new MA in Media, Technology and Democracy in 11 months opens doors to careers in policy, advocacy, and strategy on the biggest issues of our day! And there are stipends to defray costs, too. Please tell your networks about this new opportunity--thanks! https://www.american.edu/soc/communication-studies/ma/ma-mtd.cfm [https://cms.american.edu/soc/film/ma/images/01-FMA-header.jpg]<https://www.american.edu/soc/communication-studies/ma/ma-mtd.cfm> MA in Media, Technology and Democracy | School of Communication | American University, Washington, DC<https://www.american.edu/soc/communication-studies/ma/ma-mtd.cfm> The MA in Media, Technology & Democracy is a 30 credit program. To estimate the cost of tuition, please see the current cost per credit hour for graduate students. The School of Communication offers graduate students both merit-based and need-based financial aid. www.american.edu 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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Call for Applications: MA Data, Culture and Society (University of Westminster)
by Pieter Verdegem 25 Nov '21

25 Nov '21

The Westminster School of Media and Communication and the School of Computer Science and Engineering welcome applications to its interdisciplinary MA programme in Data, Culture and Society. We live in an age where almost everything of what we do is connected to data. Big data and datafication pose great opportunities but also risks for contemporary societies. This MA course addresses, explores and creatively utilises this transformation. We place an emphasis on current and future technologies and practices such as algorithms, artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, data analytics and data mining, the Internet of Things, and others. The programme is part of the School's Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI - https://camri.ac.uk//) which is home to around 30 researchers and 65 doctoral students. It has been a leading centre of media and communications research in the UK for almost 30 years. CAMRI is noted for its strong international dimension and its focus on critical media research, with interests in the study of digital and social media, the political economy of communications, global and transnational media, media policy studies, media and activism, and media history. Additional information about the programme, application and entry requirements: https://westminster.ac.uk/data-culture-and-society-ma Inquiries can be directed to: Dr. Pieter Verdegem (p.verdegem(a)westminster.ac.uk) Course Leader of the MA in Data, Culture and Society 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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VIDEO: Hidden Seams: Auditing Knowledge, Information & Communication
by Matthew Moore 25 Nov '21

25 Nov '21

More Info & RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Information-Innovation-UTS/events/281418241 The disciplines of knowledge management, information management and corporate communications have all developed tools to assess organisations, often known as “audits”. While these techniques have developed separately, and have had different histories and drivers, they often overlap in the behaviors they target and techniques they use. This session investigates: - How the the traditions of communication, information and knowledge audits developed - Similarities and differences between them - What practitioners from these different disciples can learn from each other Patrick Lambe is a globally recognised knowledge management practitioner who was originally trained in Information and Library Science. He arrived in KM via a second career in training and development, and has been based in Singapore for three decades. Patrick is the author of Organising Knowledge: Taxonomies, Knowledge and Organisation Effectiveness (Oxford: Chandos 2007), and co-author with Nick Milton of The Knowledge Manager's Handbook 2nd ed. (London: Kogan Page 2019), which won CILIP UK's Knowledge and Information Management Award 2019 - Information Resources Print Category. Patrick is currently working on a major book on Knowledge Auditing and Knowledge Mapping. Stephen Bounds is an Information and Knowledge Management Specialist with a wide range of experience across the government and private sectors. He is Executive, Information Management at Cordelta, a professional services firm based in Canberra, Australia. With over 20 years of experience in delivering Information Management, Knowledge Management and Information Technology solutions, Stephen has a sophisticated understanding of technology tools and platforms, including how to avoid common pitfalls and maximise organisational benefits. He is an active participant on global KM community lists, and a passionate advocate for evidence-based and reason-based practice. Gaynor Deal has over forty years’ experience in Business Administration in the private and public sectors. As a founding partner of IRIS Consulting Group Pty Ltd in 2003, Gaynor has conducted audits and reviews of information and records management in public and private sector organisations, developed strategic and operational plans, policies, and procedures, developed, and implemented activity-based classification schemes (thesauri) and retention and disposal schedules. Dr Marilyn Mitchell is Discipline Leader for Communication at Bond University where she lectures in Organisational Communication and Mass Media. Prior to entering academia, she worked for IBM USA as an information developer, systems engineer in marketing, and headquarters staff member. She studied communication auditing in the US and now teaches it to postgraduate students. ***This is out last event ever*** UTS CRICOS Provider Code: 00099F DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, do not read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority, states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects. Think. Green. Do. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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