- Air-L - lists.aoir.org

WEBCAST: Strategies and Tools for Community Network Monitoring / Stratégies et outils pour la surveillance des réseaux communautaires
by Joly MacFie 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

You have your community network set up. Now what? Well, how about knowing how it's doing? Vous avez mis en place votre réseau communautaire. Maintenant quoi? Eh bien, que diriez-vous de savoir comment ça va? ISOC Live posted: "On Wednesday October 27 2021 at 12:00-13.30 UTC the Internet Society and the Association for Progressive Communications host 'Strategies and Tools for Community Network Monitoring'. This is the second session of the 2021/2022 Summit on Community Networks " [image: EN-livestream] <http://http://livestream.com/internetsociety/CNAfrica-2>On *Wednesday October 27 2021* at *12:00-13.30 UTC* the *Internet Society <https://www.internetsociety.org>* and the *Association for Progressive Communications <https://apc.org>* host '*Strategies and Tools for Community Network Monitoring <https://www.internetsociety.org/events/summit-community-networks-africa/202…>*'. This is the second session of the *2021/2022 Summit on Community Networks in Africa <https://www.internetsociety.org/events/summit-community-networks-africa/>*. This online event will explore strategies and tools for implementing network monitoring for community networks. It will showcase tested tools and approaches to effectively manage and monitor bandwidth usage, network health, and performance. *SPEAKERS* *Kevin G. Chege*, Director, Internet Development, Internet Society *Stephen Fosu*, IT Head, Presbyterian Hospital Donkorkrom *Brian Longwe*, Cofounder and CEO, Converged Technology Networks *Benson Olobo*, Technical Manager, BOSCO Uganda *MODERATOR* *James Gondwe*, Founder & Executive Director, Centre for Youth and Development (CYD) / directeur fondateur, Centre pour la jeunesse et le développement [image: FR-livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/CNAfrica-2>Le *mercredi 27 octobre 2021* à *12h00-13h30 UTC*, l'*Internet Society <https://www.internetsociety.org/fr/>* et l'*Association for Progressive Communications <https://www.apc.org/fr>* organisent « *Stratégies et outils pour la surveillance des réseaux communautaires <https://www.internetsociety.org/fr/events/summit-community-networks-africa/…>* ». Il s'agit de la deuxième session du *Sommet 2021/2022 sur les réseaux communautaires en Afrique <https://www.internetsociety.org/fr/events/summit-community-networks-africa/>*. Cet événement en ligne explorera les stratégies et les outils de mise en œuvre de la surveillance de réseau pour les réseaux communautaires. Il présentera des outils et des approches testés pour gérer et surveiller efficacement l'utilisation de la bande passante, la santé et les performances du réseau. *INTERVENANTS* *Kevin G. Chege*, Directeur, Développement Internet, Internet Society *Stephen Fosu*, Responsable du département informatique de l’hôpital presbytérien de Donkorkrom *Brian Longwe*, Cofondateur et PDG, Converged Technology Networks *Benson Olobo*, Directeur technique, BOSCO Uganda *MODÉRATEUR* *James Gondwe*, directeur fondateur, Centre pour la jeunesse et le développement (CVD) *LIVESTREAM ENGLISH http://livestream.com/internetsociety/CNAfrica-2 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/CNAfrica-2>* (Captions) *LIVESTREAM FRANÇAIS http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/CNAfrica-2 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/CNAfrica-2>* *REAL TIME TEXT https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC <https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC> *(English) *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3aOVVcT <https://bit.ly/3aOVVcT> *(EN/FR) (EN Captions) *TWITTER #VirtualCNAfricaSummit2021 <https://bit.ly/3BITQeE> #CommunityNetworks @internetsociety @ISOC_Community #switchiton #GrowInternet #Captioned* *.* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive> *(EN only) *https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc <https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc>* *https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/ <https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/>* *https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/ <https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/CNAfrica-2 <https://archive.org/details/CNAfrica-2>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14652/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

1 0

WEBCAST WED: Nigerian Peering and Interconnection Forum (ngPIF) Conference – Building a stronger peering & Interconnection ecosystem in Nigeria
by Joly MacFie 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

As I often say, peering is the essence of Internetworking. NIgerian IXPs play a vital role in moving Africa towards 80/20 <https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2020/explainer-what-is-eighty…> . [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety3/ngpif2021/>On *Wednesday 27th October 2021*, at *11:00-13:00 WAT* (10:00-12:00 UTC), the *Nigerian Peering and Interconnection Forum <https://pif.ng/>* (ngPIF) Conference will be held online with the theme '*Building a stronger peering & Interconnection ecosystem in Nigeria*'. ngPIF 2021 is organized by the *Nigerian Network Operators Group <https://www.nog.ng/>* (ngNOG) and the *Nigeria Internet exchange Point <https://ixp.net.ng/>* (IXPN) and addresses the key interconnection, peering, and traffic exchange opportunities and challenges on the continent and provides participants with national, global and regional insights for maximising opportunities that will help grow Internet infrastructure and services in Nigeria. *AGENDA* *Welcome Remarks* Dewole Ajao *Overview of Peering, Interconnection and Infrastructure in Nigeria & Globally* *Jacob Dagunduro*, Senior Network Manager, Internet eXchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN) *Darwin Costa*, Business Developer, DE-CIX Moderator - *Dewole Ajao* *Peering & Interconnection Policies and Regulations in Nigeria* *Fargani Tambeayuk*, Head of Connectivity Policy SSA, Facebook *Q&A Session* Moderator - *Ghislain Nkeramugaba*, Internet Society *Peering personals* *LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety3/ngpif2021 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety3/ngpif2021>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://pif.ng/register/ <https://pif.ng/register/>* *TWITTER #ngPIF <https://bit.ly/3vMlFjN> @IXPNigeria ngNOG @ISOC_Africa @AFRINIC @flexOptix @RackCentre @Facebook #IXPs #GrowInternet* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/ngpif2021 <https://archive.org/details/ngpif2021>* *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/ISOCAfrica/ <https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/>* (AI Captions) *https://www.facebook.com/isocngchapter <https://www.facebook.com/isocngchapter>* (AI Captions) *PARTNERS FLEXOPTIX <https://www.flexoptix.net/en/> | RACKCENTRE <https://rack-centre.com/> | FACEBOOK <http://www.facebook.com/> | Internet Society <https://isoc.org/>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14692/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

1 0

CFP STS-MIGTEC Paper Workshop 2022 (work at the intersection of science and technology studies (STS) and critical migration, security, surveillance, and border studies)
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 27 Oct '21

27 Oct '21

STS-MIGTEC Paper Workshop 2022 ONLINE 15-17 February 2022 Call for Papers The STS-MIGTEC network aims to stimulate and communicate work at the intersection of science and technology studies (STS) and critical migration, security, surveillance, and border studies. It seeks to bring together researchers from different disciplines and around the world and to initiate scientific exchange to produce synergies for relevant knowledge production (http://sts-migtec.org/) The STS-MIGTEC Paper Workshop 2022 invites scholars to present and discuss current work in several panels, to plan future network research activities, and to think about interventions beyond academic research. We invite you to submit your paper proposal, which are concerned with (but not limited to) the following questions: ● How do migration and border technologies shape transnational migration and border regimes? ● Which material and epistemic practices manifest or counter migration management/control regimes? ● What are the material/ontological politics involved and what power effects do such entanglements produce? ● What data infrastructures of migration and border control emerge; how are these configured alongside intersecting grids of power such as race, gender, sexuality, ability, nationality, age, generation and in which ways are they/can they be contested? ● What new forms of health and migration surveillance technologies and infrastructures did the Covid-19 global health pandemic trigger which now shape how we ‘see’ migrations and how versions of ‘migrants’ are enacted? ● How are migrant subjects shaped and affected by migration and border technologies? How do migrant subjects enact, subvert, appropriate them? ● What role do alternative, interventionist or oppositional technologies and infrastructures enacted by migrant subjects or other actors in solidarity with migrant subjects play? ● How can we critically and publicly engage with migration and border control technologies and infrastructures? What can the methodological and conceptual repertoire of STS add to engage critically with human rights issues, inequalities, public ignorance linked to migration and border control regimes? What role do science and critical scholars have in that process? You can submit your paper proposal either to specific thematic panels (see descriptions below), or to an open panel. After reviewing and selecting paper proposals for open thematic panels, the scientific committee will invite discussants with appropriate expertise to match the papers of the open thematic panels so as to provide informed commentaries. Please include: title, abstract (up to 250 words), and authors of the paper, incl. affiliations and short bios (75 words). Specify if you propose your paper to one of the available thematic panels (see below) or to an open panel. The deadline for submission is 31 October 2021. A variety of topics linking STS and critical migration/border/security/surveillance studies is welcomed. Schedule ● 31 October – Deadline to submit paper abstracts ● mid-November – Notification about acceptance of papers ● 31 January – Deadline to submit full draft papers (short papers of 4000 words or full papers of 8000 words) ● 15-17 February 2022 – Workshop Online Contact: Please, submit paper proposals via migtec.website(a)gmail.com (subject: STS-MIGTEC Workshop paper proposal). In case you submit a proposal to one of the thematic panels listed below please also submit to the panel convenors according to the information below. STS-MIGTEC Paper Workshop team: Olga Usachova, Nina Amelung, Silvan Pollozek, Aristotle Tympas, Georgios Glouftsios, Maria Ullrich, Ana Visan, Vasiliki Makrygianni, Jasper Van Der Kist, Koen Leurs Panel #1. Digital urban borderlands – datafication, spatial inequalities, migration and the city Udipta Boro and Fran Meissner, University of Twente, Netherlands contact: f.meissner(a)utwente.nl Cities have traditionally been places where migrants play a crucial part in the local economy and where non-citizen rights are protected. As we see an increasing datafication of both urban life and of migration it is unclear if this special role of cities will be enhanced or diminished. Data about migration and migrants and the ability to analyse that data is driven both by policy narratives and market logics – two trends that are central to urban debates. In urban areas we are seeing an increasing use of big data technologies to streamline and optimise service provision and to keep a tap on urban populations – migrants and non-migrants alike. We are witnessing the emergence of digital urban borderlands and we might witness processes of datafied segregation. Where migrants are in the city will become ever more important as new data analytics – often geo-analytics – are being incorporated into how cities are run, how urban economies function and how non-citizen residents are counted, categorised and how their movement is controlled within cities by those new systems. A growing literature suggests that data technologies tend to exasperate existing social inequalities and those inequalities are bound to be spatial and potentially infringe on migrants’ rights. At the same time, we have initiatives such as the cities for digital rights that aim to foster human and digital rights at the local and global level.[1] What do these developments mean for the position of migrants in cities and for the spatial organisation of inequalities in cities? What kind of city might the datafied migrant city be and what will the topographies of digital urban borderlands look like? Maybe more importantly what do we want them to look like? The proposed panel seeks to collate authors engaging with these or related questions to highlight how the urban, bordering processes and the spatial organisation of inequality and difference are starting to matter in new or altered ways in the smart city of tomorrow and today. While not limited to these topics we would welcome papers that touch on: ● Urban surveillance systems that have a disparate impact on (urban) mobilities ● The implications of data technologies registering location and movements (e.g. Uber and other migrant labour) ● Automated decision-making systems that hinder or facilitate migrants’ access to the city and its services ● What conditions expediate the emergence digital urban borderlands ● How cities are countering the framing of migration as risk (and how they might partake in it) ● How migrant cities are being mediated through data and location technologies ● Theoretical deliberations of what the just digital migrant city might be and how to achieve it in practical terms ● Empirical investigations of urban bordering processes and how these relate to non-citizens. [1] https://citiesfordigitalrights.org/about Panel #2. “Data quality” in border control and migration management: Politics, practices, and implications Matthias Leese, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Silvan Pollozek, European University Viadrina, Germany contact: matthias.leese(a)sipo.gess.ethz.ch<mailto:matthias.leese@sipo.gess.ethz.ch>, pollozek(a)europa-uni.de<mailto:pollozek@europa-uni.de> With the steady increase of data and databases that are mobilized for border control and migration management around the globe, the “quality” of data has started to draw the attention of regulatory bodies, asylum and law enforcement authorities, and non-state actors alike. Data quality is considered key to interoperable information systems and harmonized datasets and promises reliable information that can be used for risk analysis, situational awareness, (re-)identification, or profiling. But how do arrangements and practices of cleaning, filtering, and validating turn inaccurate, incomplete, and messy datasets into “high-quality” ones? Which notions of data quality are entangled with attempts of regulation? And how do data quality issues reconfigure border control and migration management on different levels? This panel invites contributions that explore the practices, politics, and implications of data quality within border control and migration management. Contributions might include – but are not limited to – inquiries into ● different notions, visions and problematizations migration and border management actors articulate regarding “data quality” ● the regulation of data quality ● data quality and the shaping of knowledge ● data maintenance ● institutional reordering and the reshuffling of power hierarchies in the name of “data quality” ● implications that faulty data can have on human rights and civil liberties ● how data quality can be problematized by affected individuals and civil society organizations. Panel #3. Multi-modal interventions: the promises and challenges of creative and collaborative engagements with matters of migration, borders & technology Nina Amelung, Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal Pedro Neto, Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon, Portugal Ildikó Plájás, Political Science Department, Leiden University, Netherlands Koen Leurs, Department of Media and Culture, Utrecht University, Netherlands contact: nina.amelung(a)ics.ulisboa.pt<mailto:nina.amelung@ics.ulisboa.pt> How do multiple forms of engagements with border and migration control regimes imagine and make a difference on the matters they critically engage with? This panel aims to explore diverse approaches and methodologies of critical epistemic engagements and interventions with matters of migrations, borders, and technologies. With multi-modal interventions, we refer to research engaging with creative audio-visual utterances focussed on the themes outlined above, which span across the broader spectrum of media genres and formats (including e.g. installations, documentary, film, podcasts, soundscapes, memes, graphic novels, mapping exercises). Of interest are epistemic interventions that may have the potential to make a difference in practice, including in the living conditions of migrants, as well as conceptual reflections on such collaborative, and researcher- or practitioner-led initiatives. We welcome a diversity of approaches with regards to the purposes and ambitions of interventions, but also with regards to their methodologies and formats. This may include: ● Approaches trying to create reflexivity on border control technologies and infrastructures in order to influence the design and implementation processes; ● Interventions to transcend (in)visibilities of matters of ethics, justice, and inequalities deriving from technologies and infrastructures of migrations; ● Critical reflections on how to navigate through collaborations with research participants amidst hierarchical power relations, conflicting agendas, and different epistemic practices; ● Reflections on the performativity of migration scholars' epistemic interventions, such as reflections on the questions of multiple roles academics may have as scholars, academic experts, policy advisers, activists, or artists; ● Interventions that aim at amplifying and/or empowering migrants’ use of technologies and infrastructures; ● But also engagements which aim to stimulate alternatives to current migration regimes. We are also explicitly interested in the diversity of research and dissemination designs, and the diversity of methodologies collecting and analyzing data, including (participatory) action research, visual and multimodal ethnography, digital and other creative methodologies. We encourage submissions from all disciplines (including STS, media/communication, critical data, anthropology, and/ or geography) which are either empirically grounded practice-based interventions (incl. film, participatory methodologies, art installations, performances); case studies of concrete engagements, and interventions; or, theoretical papers exploring scholars’ many ways of engaging with matters of migration, borders & technology. Panel #4. Contesting “the other” in Urban Data and (Non-)Knowledge Practices Sylvana Jahre, Geography Department, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany contact: Sylvana.jahre(a)hu-berlin.de<mailto:Sylvana.jahre@hu-berlin.de> In the frame of the European border regime, scholars have demonstrated how technology and data serve to systematically stigmatize, exclude, and oppress migrant populations through mechanisms of criminalization, identification, and social sorting (Metcalfe & Dencik 2019, Tazzioli 2019). As such practices are not limited to border regions but find itself deeply embedded into society, this panel aims at bringing together research on epistemic and political processes within the urban realm that either focus on the underlying discriminatory design of the socio-technical world that normalizes racial hierarchies (Benjamin, 2016: 148), or (research on) interventionist or oppositional practices and technologies. Urban research and knowledge production, urban policies, urban data, and technologies are all too often presented as being neutral and objective, as their subject is “the city” and migration is treated as rather incidental. However, in doing so urban scholars and practitioners not only fail to acknowledge the various discriminatory and racist practices, but they also contribute to the reproduction of such mechanisms. Approaches from feminist, postcolonial, and critical race STS are crucial to critically engage with power asymmetries that are enacted and/or reproduced through science, and technologies in the city. The panel invites research contesting the urban as objective and neutral and pointing to cities as frontiers for activating multiple truths, as well as sites of subversion, counter-narratives, and protest. Possible topics can encompass but are not limited to: ● urban systems of categorisation and their contestations ● the framing of migration in urban knowledge production, as well as subversion of such knowledge and practices of counter-knowledge production ● racialised urban systems of control and surveillance ● missing data with regard to cities ● practices by migrant subjects and organizations in solidarity to migrants that contest, protest and subvert one or more of the above-mentioned issues Literature cited: Benjamin, Ruha (2016): Catching Our Breath: Critical Race STS and the Carceral Imagination. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 2, pp. 145-156. Metcalfe & Dencik (2019): The politics of big borders: Data (in)justice and the governance of refugees. first Monday, https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/9934/7749. Tazzioli, Martina (2019): The Making of Migration. The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe’s Borders. London: SAGE Publications.

1 0

Critical Internet Studies Ethnographies for Use in Undergrad Methods course
by Andrew Herman 26 Oct '21

26 Oct '21

Dear AoIRistas I am seeking suggestions for new and recent ethnographies in the field of critical internet studies (broadly construed) for use in my undergraduate methods course in communication studies. I am looking for book-length monographs that are: a) theoretically driven; b) methodologically reflective; c) tell an interesting narrative about the research; and accessible to second-year undergraduates who are willing to stretch themselves. The books do not necessarily have to be located in communication/media studies in terms of discipline. In the past, I have used books that come out of anthropology as well as sociology, such as Ilana Gershon's The Break Up 2.0. The book I am currently using is Whitney Phillip's, This is Why We Can't Have Nice Things. I have had great success teaching the book, but I am getting tired of it, lol. I look forward to your suggestions. Andrew Herman, Ph. D (he/his/him) Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University I acknowledge that I am on the traditional territory of the Attawandaron (Neutral), Anishnaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples. Wilfrid Laurier University is located on the Haldimand tract, which was promised to the Six Nations. http://www.lspirg.org/knowtheland/<https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lspirg…>.

5 4

Early career grant at the University of Bologna
by Riccardo Nanni 26 Oct '21

26 Oct '21

Dear all, apologies for crossposting! This grant at the University of Bologna, Italy, might be interesting to some of you. Early Career grant (RTDA) on: Cybersecurity governance - https://bandi.miur.it/jobs.php/public/job/id_job/85886 Best, Riccardo Nanni

1 0

Invitation to Immersive Storytelling Symposium
by Sarah Martindale 26 Oct '21

26 Oct '21

*Immersive Storytelling Symposium, 2-3 November, Lakeside Arts, Nottingham, UK* Through a combination of diverse immersive performances, captivating presentations, and expert panel discussions, this hybrid event will connect researchers and creators from across the globe. Registration is free for everyone attending, whether in person or online. The first day (1-5pm on 2 November) will feature a live performance, immersive scripting/publishing discussion panel and five project presentations. An evening event (5.30-7.30pm on 2 November) will showcase the visionary potential of this emerging sector, including 360° films projected in an inflatable VR dome, other interactive demos and films. The second day (9am-1pm on 3 November) will feature immersive performance discussion panels and six project presentations. *Please follow the link below for more details about the programme and to book * https://www.lakesidearts.org.uk/research/research-projects/Storytelling-Sym… *If you have any questions about the event, please contact * AX-immersivestories(a)exmail.nottingham.ac.uk Kind regards Sarah Dr Sarah Martindale <https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/clas/departments/culturalmediaandvisualstudies…> Department of Cultural, Merdia and Visual Studies University of Nottingham

1 0

Tenure Track Position in AI and Critical Data Studies at York University
by Ganaele Langlois 26 Oct '21

26 Oct '21

Dear colleagues, The Department of Communication and Media Studies at York University is hiring in AI and Critical Data Studies at the Assistant level. http://webapps.yorku.ca/academichiringviewer/viewposition.jsp?positionnumbe… Best, Ganaele -- Ganaele Langlois (she/her) Associate Professor and Chair Department of Communication & Media Studies York University

1 0

Assistant/Associate Position in Social Media and PR, York University (Markham)
by Ganaele Langlois 26 Oct '21

26 Oct '21

Dear Colleagues, The Department of Communication and Media Studies at York University is looking for an Assistant/Associate Professor for its Social Media and PR stream at our new Markham campus. http://webapps.yorku.ca/academichiringviewer/viewposition.jsp?positionnumbe… Best, Ganaele -- Ganaele Langlois (she/her) Associate Professor and Chair Department of Communication & Media Studies York University

1 0

Call for Papers: journal gamevironments - February 1, 2022
by Lisa Kienzl 25 Oct '21

25 Oct '21

Dear all, we are currently looking for contributions for the upcoming /Regular Issue 2022/ of the international peer-reviewed open-access journal /gamevironments/ - deadline for full paper submission is February 1, 2022! Further details below. Best wishes, Lisa Kienzl managing editor /gamevironments/ ---------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers: journal GAMEVIRONMENTS Regular Issue 2022 ================ To further explore the multilayered socio-cultural and political contexts of video games and gaming, the international peer-reviewed journal GAMEVIRONMENTS is calling for submissions for its Regular Issue 2022. https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/ <https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/> DEADLINES The journal follows a fixed timeline for the Regular Issue: 1. February 2022: Full Chapter Submission 15. March 2022: Review Results Returned 1. May 2022: Revised Chapter Submission summer Online-Publication GAMEVIRONMENTS seeks to explore both established approaches and new frontiers of researching video games/gaming as related to religion, culture, and society. The journal encourages inter- and multidisciplinary works combining for example Cultural Studies, History, Religious studies, Theology, Ludology, and Psychology. All submitted articles will be reviewed on a double-blind peer-review basis. ================ Besides your contribution, we need keywords (up to 10), an abstract of up to 200 words, and a brief biographical paragraph (100 to 150 words) with your current institutional address and email address. Please consult the gamevironments submission style sheet before submitting your paper, as well as the Help Desk for some general principles (https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/gamevir… <https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/gamevir…>). Video games are full of images, so it would be a good idea to include some of them, illustrating your argumentation. But, for any image, you need to hold the copyright. Please ensure that! Before publishing with the journal, you need to sign a copyright declaration which we provide. Please send all images as .jpg file(s) to us due to formatting issues. There is no article processing charge. If you are ready, please send your contribution as an RTF file to the managing editor: games2(a)uni-bremen.de <mailto:games2@uni-bremen.de>. ================ PAPER TYPES We include different categories of texts in the journal: a) regular academic articles Normally, articles should be between 5.000 words and 10.000 words in length. In general, a clear structure is of course helpful to understand your argumentation (introduction, discussing the relevance of your idea, theoretical frame, used method(s), case study and amount of new knowledge). b) interviews Next to academic articles we are interested in projects related to games, gamers, gaming and religion, culture, and society. For instance, if you have an interview with a game designer, a pedagogue working with games, etc., please feel free to share it in our journal! c) research reports Sometimes you may just want to give an impression of your current research, an introduction to a new project, or just have a longing for acclamation of about the 5% of successful third part funding that we get for this "weird stuff" – please feel free to do so :) In general, such research reports should be short descriptions between 3000 and 5000 words in length. They are not peer-reviewed, but we as journal editors will give some revisions if necessary. d) book reviews There was a flow in publications concerned with games and religion/culture in the last years, so it could be interesting to introduce and discuss some of them. If you are reading a new book which you think can be helpful for other researchers, feel free to propose a review. Reviews should be around 1000 words. Please note that in most cases, the journal will not be able to provide a free copy for reviews, but will try to source a free copy for you. e) game reviews Due to the fact that we are a games journal that wants to collect, systematize and further develop the various recent multidisciplinary approaches in the research area, we need to know our way around in our field, namely GAMES! So if you are playing a game which you think can be an interesting and promising object of investigation, please send us proposals for a game review. Reviews should be around 1000 words. Please note that in most cases, the journal will not be able to provide a free copy for reviews. https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/ <https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/>__ ================ -- Dr. Dr. Lisa Kienzl (sie/ihr | she/her) Literaturen und Medien der Religion | Institut für Religionswissenschaft und Religionspädagogik http://www.religion.uni-bremen.de Lab "Media and Religion" | ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/zemki/labs/media-and-religion Managing editor gamevironments https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/ Universität Bremen Sportturm (SpT) Postfach 330 440 28359 Bremen T. +49 (0)421 218 67912

1 0

Open and inclusive access to research
by gimena del rio riande 25 Oct '21

25 Oct '21

Open and Inclusive Access to Research Symposium, November 8-11 ( http://openandinclusiveresearch.org/) Open and Inclusive Access to Research is a four day virtual symposium with the goal of bringing experts and early career research professionals together in a bilingual (Spanish-English) workshop environment. This event will enable attendees from many regions to exchange knowledge and expertise about Open Research Practices in a strategic yet very hands-on manner, with workshops, debates and conversations with prominent speakers from both continents. The event is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada with additional support from the Sloan-funded Reimagining Educational Practices for Open (REPO) project, Force11, Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO), Centro Argentino de Información Científica y Tecnológica (CAICYT-CONICET), the University of Lethbridge, and the DOAJ. http://openandinclusiveresearch.org/sponsors/ Registration is free and available at http://openandinclusiveresearch.org/ . Simultaneous interpretation (SP-EN and EN-SP) will be offered. Questions regarding the event can be directed to the organizers, Gimena del Rio Riande, gdelrio.riande(a)gmail.com, or Daniel O'Donnell, daniel.odonnell(a)uleth.ca. ### Dra. Gimena del Rio Riande http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8997-5415 Investigadora Adjunta. IIBICRIT, CONICET (Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas y Crítica Textual) - http://www.iibicrit-conicet.gov.ar/ <http://www.iibicrit-conicet.gov.ar/> Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales: http://aahd.net.ar Coordinadora Humanidades Digitales CAICYT Lab: http://hdlab.space/ Twitter: @gimenadelr <https://twitter.com/gimenadelr> Marcelo T. de Alvear 1694 (1060). Buenos Aires - Argentina (54)-11-4129-1158

1 0