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Beta Test Invitation - Multi-Factor Metadata Filters with Boolean Operators
by Stuart Shulman 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

We launched a new set of metadata filter tools last night on DiscoverText and there will be beta testing all this week. The general idea is to create reusable multi-factor metadata filters with Boolean logic operations for better segmentation of datasets. Here is an overview of the beta test functionality: https://vimeo.com/594609412 If you are interested in joining the beta test, please schedule a web meeting: https://calendly.com/discovertext DiscoverText is 100% free for academic research for the entire 2021-2022 academic year. The training is also free. By joining the beta test and providing feedback you can shape the final functionality of these new tools, advance your research, publish instead of perish, and create lively, real time classroom assignments.

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Special issue on Infrastructural Politics
by Blake Hallinan 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

Dear colleagues, I’m pleased to announce the publication of a new special issue of Cultural Studies on “Infrastructural Politics,” edited by myself (Blake Hallinan) and James N. Gilmore. This issue examines infrastructure as both a mode of governance and a site of political contestation through diverse case studies including digital supply chains, dredging in Dubai, police body cameras in the US, Russian data centers in Finland, coal mining in Pakistan’s Thar desert, streaming media platforms, and more. Please see below and circulate widely. New issue: Cultural Studies - Volume 35, Numbers 4-5 (2021) https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/current Introduction: Infrastructural politics amidst the coils of control [Blake Hallinan and James N. Gilmore] https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2021.1895259 Scaling Problems and Solutions: Redirected entanglements in the digital supply chain [Matthew Hockenberry] https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2021.1895242 Thermopolitics of data: cloud infrastructures and energy futures [Julia Velkova] https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2021.1895243 ‘The world is sinking:’ sand, urban infrastructure, and world-cities [Burç Köstem] https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2021.1895244 Civilizing infrastructure [Blake Hallinan] https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2021.1895245 Infrastructures of discovery: examining podcast ratings and rankings [Jeremy Wade Morris] https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2021.1895246 Working For, Against, and Alongside Formalization: Tuning sound for infrastructures: artificial intelligence, automation, and the cultural politics of audio mastering [Jonathan Sterne and Elena Razlogova] https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2021.1895247 Seeing like an infrastructure: avidity and difference in algorithmic recommendation [Nick Seaver] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09502386.2021.1895248 The care and feeding of 9-1-1 infrastructure: dispatcher culture as media work and infrastructural transformation [Elizabeth Ellcessor] https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2021.1895249 Fissures in algorithmic power: platforms, code, and contestation [Fabian Ferrari and Mark Graham] https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2021.1895250 Seeing infrastructure: race, facial recognition and the politics of data [Nikki Stevens and Os Keyes] https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2021.1895252 Sweeping the city: infrastructure, informality, and the politics of maintenance [Constance Gordan and Kyle Byron] https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2021.1895253 Analyzing Imaginaries, Imagining Interventions: Smart homes: domestic futurity as Infrastructure [Heather Suzanne Woods] https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2021.1895254 ‘We don't even know who owns it’: the infrastructural imaginary of Spruce Pine, NC [D. Travers Scott] https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2021.1895255 Coal ground [Ayesha Omer] https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2021.1895260 Recoding the city: cultural mediation of short-term rental platforms in the US [Torin Monahan] https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2021.1895258 Data(-)based ambivalence regarding NYC 311 data infrastructure [Lindsay Poirier] https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2021.1895256 Mischievous infrastructure: tactical secrecy through infrastructural friction in police video systems [CJ Reynolds] https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2021.1895257 -- Blake Hallinan Postdoctoral Research Hebrew University blake.hallinan(a)mail.huji.ac.il @blakeplease

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WEBCAST MON-TUE: 2021 Gambia National Internet Governance Forum
by Joly MacFie 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

The Gambia IGF is always a great event, full of substantial discussion. This year they are one of the first National IGFs to go hybrid, not always easy to pull off. The start has been delayed by heavy rain. [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/gmigf2021>On *Monday-Tuesday August 30-31 2021* the *7th Annual Gambia National Internet Governance Forum* will be held , with the theme ‘*Digital Inclusion and Access for Resilient Gambia*’. The Internet Governance Forum serves to bring people together from various stakeholder groups as equals, in discussions on public policy issues related to the Internet. The Forum is organized to represent all key stakeholders in the Gambia through a National Steering Committee coordinated by the *Ministry of Information and Communication Infrastructure <https://www.facebook.com/Ministry-of-Information-and-Communication-Infrastr…>* (MOICI).. The event will be hybrid - both online and face-to-face on site. The livestream is provided by the* Internet Society Gambia Chapter <https://www.facebook.com/isocgambiachapter/>*. *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/gmigf2021 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/gmigf2021>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3Bf7t4j <https://bit.ly/3Bf7t4j>* *AGENDA: https://archive.org/download/gmigf2021/gmigf2021_agenda.pdf <https://archive.org/download/gmigf2021/gmigf2021_agenda.pdf>(GMT = UTC)* *TWITTER #gmigf2021 <https://bit.ly/3sY46fc> @gambia_forum @isocgm #TheGambia #Gambia #IGF* *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>* *https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/ <https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/>* *https://www.facebook.com/gambiaigf/live <https://www.facebook.com/gambiaigf/live>* *https://www.facebook.com/isocgambiachapter/ <https://www.facebook.com/isocgambiachapter/>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/gmigf2021 <https://archive.org/details/gmigf2021>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14483/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Show me the numbers: Workshop on Analyzing IETF Data (AID), 2021
by Niels ten Oever 27 Aug '21

27 Aug '21

Hi all, The following event might be of interest! https://www.iab.org/activities/workshops/aid/ Show me the numbers: Workshop on Analyzing IETF Data (AID), 2021 The IETF as an international Standards Developing Organization hosts diverse data on the history, development, and current activities in the development and standardization of Internet protocols and its institutions. A large portion of this data is publicly available, yet this data is arguably underutilized as a tool to inform the work in the IETF and research on topics like Internet governance and trends in ICT standard-setting. This workshop aims to enable engineers and researchers alike to mine the IETF’s data sources in order to explore trends through the analysis of IETF data, such as email archives ( https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/ ), I-Ds ( https://www.ietf.org/standards/ids/ ), RFCs ( https://www.ietf.org/standards/rfcs/ ), and the datatracker (https://datatracker.ietf.org/ ). This work can be used to derive insights into the inner workings of the process of standardization, participation, and governance1. This workshop aims to bring together people who have already analyzed IETF data, those who are interested in the analysis of IETF data, and those who are interested in the results of such analysis as input for improvement of the IETF’s work. We invite the research community, IETF participants, and others with an interest in the data collected by the IETF, its protocols, and participants, to submit a contribution to the workshop. Furthermore, we also welcome participants who are interested in the analysis that could be performed based on this data as well as those contributing considerations regarding future collection and handling of IETF data. Possible avenues for explorations include, but are not limited to: - What are patterns for participation in the IETF (what are predictors for a long and productive tenure, when do people stop participating, what is needed to successfully produce RFCs)? - How is the IETF community developing (i.e., affiliations, publications, language, nationality, leadership positions)? - How do affiliations develop in the IETF (i.e., does a change in affiliation translate into a change in behavior, is there a relation between affiliation and leadership positions and/or centrality, what is the affiliation distribution per area and/or WG)? - What social dynamics (gender, nationality, income, occupation, and other social dynamics) are not captured by IETF data and what data and research approaches are needed to develop further insights in the social dynamics of standardization? - How productive and effective is the IETF, with respect to documents, pages, words, letters and in comparison the overall activities e.g. on mailing lists? - How well is the outcome of the IETF used, e.g,. based on references to RFCs in research papers, product manuals, or other sources? - What data would be relevant to collect that is not collected yet or what should be considered with respect to handling of personal data during the data collection and research. - How effective is the IETF’s consensus-based decision making process? Is there evidence that documents receive broad and effective reviews? Are experts with relevant expertise engaging with developing standards in a timely manner? Participation and Submission People interested in participation are requested to submit short position papers (500-1000 words). The paper can cover one or multiple of the following points, but this list should not be considered exhaustive: - Research questions and interests in IETF data; indication which question should be answered, the data needed to do so, and how these insights could be used to improve processes and operations; - Description of the IETF data they aim to analyze or the information they would like to see made available to inform their work (such as mailing list archives, or participation data obtained through the datatracker) and their methods for doing so (see footnote 1); - Potential and preliminary findings; and how those insights could either benefit leadership, WG chairs, and authors/participants, and/or society and industry at large; - Potential or preliminary findings and how those add novel insights to ongoing academic debates. Proposals for data analysis should also contain a brief consideration of any related ethics and privacy issues. The basic principles of ethical research are outlined in the Belmont Report2 (covering e.g., respect for persons, beneficence, and justice) and/or institutional ethics guidelines. The workshop will be invitation-only. The organizers will decide whom to invite based on the submissions received. Therefore, please indicate your interest by submitting a research proposal by September 29, 2021 to aid-workshop-pc(a)iab.org. The Program Committee members are Niels ten Oever (chair, University of Amsterdam), Colin Perkins (chair, IRTF, University of Glasgow), Corinne Cath (chair, Oxford Internet Institute), Mirja Kühlewind (IAB, Ericsson), Zhenbin Li (IAB, Huawei), Wes Hardaker (IAB, USC/ISI). All inputs submitted and considered relevant will be published on the workshop web page. Sessions will be organized according to content, and not every accepted submission or invited attendee will have an opportunity to present as the intent is to foster discussion and not simply to have a sequence of presentations. Position papers from those unable to attend in person are encouraged. A workshop report will be published afterwards. Logistics - Submissions Due: 29 September 2021 - Invitations Issued by: 15 October 2021 - Workshop Date: November 29 – December 3 2021 - Location: Online and at the University of Amsterdam (COVID-19 permitting). The workshop will consist of three parts: 1. opening workshop (Monday) 2. hackathon (Tuesday – Thursday morning) 3. closing event (Thursday afternoon) Feel free to contact the program committee with any further questions (including questions related to available data or expected outcomes): aid-workshop-pc(a)iab.org 1 Examples of such approaches are: https://www.arkko.com/tools/docstats.html, http://datactive.github.io/bigbang/, https://csperkins.org/research/protocol-standards/2020-12-10-ignacio-iesg-t…, https://sodestream.github.io/impact-of-early-engagement-on-longevity-of-iet… 2 https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/sites/default/files/the-belmont-report-508c_FINAL.… -- Niels ten Oever, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher - Media Studies Department - University of Amsterdam Affiliated Faculty - Digital Democracy Insitute - Simon Fraser University Research Fellow - Centre for Internet and Human Rights - European University Viadrina Associated Scholar - Centro de Tecnologia e Sociedade - Fundação Getúlio Vargas W: https://nielstenoever.net E: mail(a)nielstenoever.net T: @nielstenoever P/S/WA: +31629051853 PGP: 2458 0B70 5C4A FD8A 9488 643A 0ED8 3F3A 468A C8B3 Read my latest article on Internet infrastructure governance in Globalizations here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14747731.2021.1953221

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Truth and Trust Online 2021: Registration is now open
by Elena Kochkina 27 Aug '21

27 Aug '21

[https://mcusercontent.com/a4f23076f7054c8e9a1620da3/images/05974e2b-8937-03…] Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce that the registration for Truth and Trust Online 2021 is now open! You can learn about the pricing and register by clicking the button below. Looking forward to seeing you in October! Register Now<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftruthandt…> We are excited to once again bring together members of academia, industry, non-profit organizations, and other stakeholders to discuss important topics in online communications. This year's keynote speakers are Kalina Bontcheva, Gianluca Stringhini and Lyric Jain. Follow the link to learn more about the program: https://truthandtrustonline.com/programme-2021/<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftruthandt…> . Fee Waiver Program We have a fee waiver program in place for those who may not have the financial resources that permit registration. Fill out the form if you would like to apply for the fee waiver program to attend the Truth and Trust Online 2021. This will cover full-price tickets for students, PhD candidates, members of academia and non-profits. Applicants will hear back from the organising team on a rolling basis. Please use your professional or student email address and affiliation to fill out this form. Find the form here (the deadline to apply is October 4th, 2021): Fee waiver form<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftruthandt…> Special issue of the ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality You can submit your technical papers to a special issue of the ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality, which will also open to other submissions (deadline: November 15, 2021). More information about the call for the JDIQ special issue can be found here: https://truthandtrustonline.com/call-for-special-issue-papers-on-trust-and-…<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftruthandt…> About The Conference on Truth and Trust Online The Conference on Truth and Trust Online is an annual forum for academia, industry, non-profit organizations, and other stakeholders to discuss the problems facing (social) media platforms and technical solutions to understand and address them. TTO’s mission is to bring together all parties working toward improving the truthfulness and trustworthiness of online communications. More information about the conference is on the TTO website<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftruthandt…>. Contact us if you have any questions at admin(a)truthandtrustonline.com<mailto:admin@truthandtrustonline.com> Feel free to pass this email on to anyone you think might be interested! Yours sincerely, Elena Kochkina on behalf of the Truth and Trust Online Organising committee [TTO Facebook page]<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftruthandt…> [TTO Twitter]<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftruthandt…> [TTO Website]<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftruthandt…>

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Program of the 2021 International Journal of Press/Politics Virtual Conference (13-16 September 2021)
by Cristian Vaccari 27 Aug '21

27 Aug '21

Dear colleagues, I am delighted to share the program of the 2021 conference of The International Journal of Press/Politics, which features academic research on the relationship between media and political processes around the world. The conference will be held on Zoom from 13-16 September 2021. The program is also available at https://cristianvaccari.com/2021/08/27/program-of-the-2021-international-jo… . The conference is free to attend, but registration is required. Those who wish to do so can pay a voluntary contribution for GBP5. Instructions on how to register are below. Please feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested. ********** Program of the 2021 International Journal of Press/Politics Virtual Conference (13-16 September 2021) Logistics The conference will be held via a secure Zoom link shared only with participants and attendees. All times are British Summer Time (BST), or UTC+1. For each paper, participants will have a total of 25 minutes, which includes both the paper presentation and the live discussion. Presentation of each paper will be immediately followed by discussion of the paper. Registration Registration fees can be paid via shorturl.at/gtF35. The fees are £30 for presenters and attendees £5. Payment of the registration fees is entirely voluntary for both presenters and attendees. Those who would like to attend the conference need to sign up via https://forms.gle/rqwRQziivVt6wCpn7. Those who sign up will receive the conference Zoom link in the morning of 13 September. The link will be shared only with conference presenters and those who signed up to attend. It will not be published anywhere. ********** Monday 13 September, 12:30-5:45pm 12:30-12:35pm Welcome and Opening remarks Cristian Vaccari (Loughborough University), Editor-in-Chief of IJPP 12:35-1:50pm News and the Pandemic The Psychological Empowerment of Solutions Journalism: Perspectives from Pandemic News Users in the UK Xin Zhao (Bournemouth University), Daniel Jackson (Bournemouth University), An Nguyen (Bournemouth University), Antje Glück (Bournemouth University) Framing migration during the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa: a 12-month media monitoring project Thea de Gruchy (University of the Witwatersrand), Thulie Zikhali (University of the Witwatersrand), Jo Vearey (University of the Witwatersrand), Johanna Hanefeld (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) YouTube as a source of information about unproven drugs for Covid-19: The role of the mainstream media and recommendation algorithms in promoting misinformation Felipe Bonow Soares (UFPEL/UFRGS), Igor Salgueiro (UFPEL), Carolina Bonoto (UFRGS), Otávio Vinhas (University College Dublin) 1:50-3:05pm Media and Politics around the World Jacob Zuma and the public performance of ANC politics: The case of ‘Arms Deal’ court appearances Lefa Afrika (University of Cape Town) Populism Influence on Media Content: Polarization and Professionalization in Ecuador before and during Correa’s era Manel Palos Pons (University of California, San Diego) Risks of COVID-19 reporting in (semi-)authoritarian states: Perceived pressures on journalists in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan Svetlana S. Bodrunova (St. Petersburg State University), Nikita Argylov, (Far Eastern Federal University), Aliaksandr Hradziushka (Belarusian State University), Galiya Ibrayeva, (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University) 3:05-4:45pm New Perspectives on Misinformation and Disinformation Chair: C.W. Anderson (University of Leeds, Associate Editor of IJPP) Misinformation and Trust in Institutions in Four Countries in 2019 and 2021 Shelley Boulianne (MacEwan University, Edda Humprecht (University of Zurich) Social media and political misinformation in the 2021 Mexico elections: Maximal panic, minimal effects Sebastián Valenzuela (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Marcelo Santos (Universidad Finis Terrae), Carlos Muñiz (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León) Marking the boundaries between visual and textual disinformation in a digital world: A literature synthesis and research agenda Teresa Elena Weikmann (University of Vienna), Sophie Lecheler (University of Vienna) Setting the agenda through misinformation: Analyzing the vote-by-mail coverage during the 2020 US elections Jonas Kaiser (Suffolk University), Carolyn Schmitt (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Kathryn Stapleton (Suffolk University) 4:45-5:45pm Keynote Speech Young Mie Kim (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Young Mie Kim is a Professor of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a Faculty Affiliate of the Department of Political Science. Kim is a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Kim’s research concerns data-driven, algorithm-based, digitally mediated political communication. Kim’s recent research project, Project DATA (Digital Ad Tracking & Analysis), empirically investigates the sponsors, content, and targets of digital political campaigns across multiple platforms with a user-based, real-time, ad tracking tool that reverse engineers the algorithms of political campaigns. Kim and her team’s research, “The Stealth Media? Groups and Targets behind Divisive Issue Campaigns on Facebook,” identified “suspicious groups,” including Russian groups on Facebook. The work received the Kaid-Sanders Best Article of the Year in Political Communication (2018), awarded by the International Communication Association. Kim testified at the Federal Election Commission‘s hearings on the rulemaking of internet communication disclaimers and presented her research at the Congressional briefings on foreign interference in elections. Kim also spoke at the European Parliament on her research on data-driven political advertising and inequality in political involvement. ********** Tuesday 14 September, 9:30am-2:30pm 9-30:10:45am Hearing or Ignoring the other side: Causes and Consequences Why read news from the other side? How people’s selection and avoidance of news articles on social media increases polarization Jakob Boggild (European University Institute) Selective Exposure and New Political Cleavages: Political Media Use and Ideological Reinforcement Over Time Adam Shehata (University of Gothenburg), Mats Ekström (University of Gothenburg), Per Oleskog-Tryggvasson (University of Gothenburg) Curating political animosity? The relation of algorithmic news curation to ideological extremity and social and political intolerance Linda Bos (University of Amsterdam), Jakob Ohme (University of Amsterdam), Artemis Tsoulos-Malakoudi (University of Amsterdam) 10:45am-12:00pm Debating the Normative Foundations of the News “Fair and balanced”: What news audiences in four countries mean when they say they prefer impartial news Camila Mont’Alverne (University of Oxford), Sumitra Badrinathan (University of Oxford), Amy Ross Arguedas (University of Oxford), Benjamin Toff (University of Oxford), Richard Fletcher (University of Oxford), Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (University of Oxford) Fake News and Value Pluralism: A Liberal Response to Post-Truth Politics Nick Anstead (London School of Economics) “Polite Watchdog”: Kompas and Watchdog Journalism in the Post Authoritarian Indonesia Wijayanto (Universitas Diponegoro) 12:00-1:15pm Social Media and Politics (In)Civility of Campaign Videos and User Comments in Facebook: Affective Polarization and Mobilization Taberez Ahmed Neyazi (National University of Singapore), Ozan Kuru (National University of Singapore), Subhayan Mukerjee (National University of Singapore) The role of Facebook influencers in shaping the narratives of the Rodrigo Duterte era Renee Karunungan (Loughborough University) Politicians and journalists – interactive communication in social media? Kinga Adamczewska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) 1:15-2:30pm Communicating Covid-19 Chair: David Smith (University of Leicester, Managing Editor of IJPP) Pandemic Nationalism: How Exposure to Government Social Media Affects People’s Belief in COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories in China Anfan Chen (University of Science and Technology of China), Yingdan Lu (Stanford University), Kaiping Chen (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Aaron Ng (National University of Singapore) Understanding the Agenda of Alternative and Online Political Media Post-Corbyn and through the Covid-19 Pandemic Declan McDowell-Naylor (Cardiff University), Stephen Cushion (Cardiff University), Richard Thomas (Swansea University) The role of political partisanship for the relationship between trust in the news and trust in the government as sources for coronavirus information: Findings from two cross-sectional online survey studies in six countries Anne Schulz (University of Zurich), Richard Fletcher (University of Oxford), Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (University of Oxford) ********** Wednesday 15 September, 12:30-5:30pm 12:30-1:45pm Media Policy between Old and New Challenges Content Moderation in the Digital Democracy: What’s the Problem? Nahema Marchal (University of Zurich), Fabrizio Gilardi (University of Zurich), Emma Hoes (University of Zurich), Jonathan Kluser (University of Zurich), Meysam Alizadeh (University of Zurich), Mael Kubli (University of Zurich) Funding Democracy: Public Media and Democratic Health in 33 Countries Timothy Neff (University of Pennsylvania), Victor Pickard (University of Pennsylvania) Good Journalism or Good Business? The politics of press support and news production in Taiwan Hsiao-wen Lee (SOAS, University of London) 1:45-3:00pm International Perspectives on Social Media and Political Communication Exploring Digital Campaign Competence: The Role of Voter Knowledge on Data-Driven Election Campaigns Sophie Minihold (University of Vienna and University of Amsterdam), Sophie Lecheler (University of Vienna), Claes de Vreese (University of Amsterdam), Sanne Kruikemeier (University of Amsterdam) The gendered use of social media among political candidates in transition contexts: evidence from Tunisia Malin Holm (Uppsala University), Yasmine Naila Skhiri (Uppsala University), Pär Zetterberg (Uppsala University) Pandemic Politics: Microtargeting Strategies on Facebook India Kiran Arabaghatta Basavaraj (University of Exeter), Holli A. Semetko (Emory University), Anup Kumar (Cleveland State University) 3:00-4:15pm Digital Media and Politics: Dynamics and Influences Incumbency, corruption, and the politics of online content regulation Kyong Mazzaro (City University of New York) Trolling with the Punches: How Journalists Navigate Online Harassment Elizabeth Dubois (University of Ottawa), Chris Tenove (University of British Columbia), Sabrina Wilkinson (University of Ottawa), Trevor Deley (University of Ottawa) News We Can Use: Local news and civic engagement in neighbourhood chat groups online Laszlo Horvath (University of Exeter), Joshua Blamire (University of Exeter) 4-15-5:30pm Virtual reception ********** Thursday 16 September, 9:30am-2:30pm 9:30:10-45am Understanding Patterns of News Consumption, Avoidance, and Sharing I Do Not (Want to) Know! An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship Between Unintentional and Intentional News Avoidance and Their Predictors Dominika Betakova (University of Vienna), Hajo Boomgaarden (University of Vienna), Sophie Lecheler (University of Vienna), Svenja Schäfer (University of Vienna), Loes Aaldering (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Neither absent nor ambient: A more holistic view of incidental exposure to news in the digital age Ruth Palmer (IE University), Benjamin Toff (University of Minnesota and University of Oxford) To convince, to provoke or to entertain? A study on individual motivations behind online misinformation sharing in six Western democracies Sophie Morosoli (University of Antwerp), Peter Van Aelst (University of Antwerp), Patrick van Erkel (University of Antwerp) 10:45am-12:00pm Contentious Politics and Information Flows Now is the time to protest: the eternal sunshine of a spotless polity Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça (UFMG/INCT.DD), Nina Santos (INCT.DD) Conventional vs. Contentious: Exploring the relationship between participation in the social movement and voting intention in Hong Kong Pei Zhi (City University of Hong Kong) Tale of Two Internets: How Information Flows from the US to Chinese Social Media Yingdan Lu (Stanford University), Jack Schaefer (University of California Los Angeles), Jungseock Joo (University of California Los Angeles), Kunwoo Park (Soongsil University), Jennifer Pan (Stanford University) 12:00-1:15pm Perspectives on Media Effects The Other 98%: Exposure to and Effects of Political Content Beyond News: Evidence from browsing data in three countries Magdalena Wojcieszak (University of California Davis and University of Amsterdam), Sjifra de Leeuw (University of Amsterdam), Bernhard Clemm (University of Amsterdam), Ericka Menchen-Trevino (American University) Does corruption corrupt? The behavioral effects of mediated exposure to corruption Israel Waismel-Manor (University of Haifa), Patricia Moy (University of Washington), Rico Neumann (University of Washington), Moran Shechnick (University of Haifa) Does Identity Matter? Ethnicity, Religion and Effects of Negative Campaigning on the Perception of Candidates Kelechi Amakoh (University of Amsterdam) 1-15:2:30pm Digital Innovation in News: Challenges and Strategies The creation of algorithmic publics in authoritarian regimes: Explaining digital innovation uptake in Russian news media Olga Dovbysh (University of Helsinki), Mariëlle Wijermars (Maastricht University and University of Helsinki) Does political position matter? Affective engagement strategies of news providers on Facebook in post-handover Hong Kong Joyce Y.M. Nip (University of Sydney), Benoit Berthelier (University of Sydney) Uneasy Bedfellows: AI in the News, Platform Companies and the Issue of Journalistic Autonomy Felix M. Simon (University of Oxford and Columbia University) 2:30-2:45pm Conclusions and farewell Cristian Vaccari Loughborough University, Editor-in-Chief of IJPP ********** Cristian Vaccari ****************************************************** Professor of Political Communication, Loughborough University <https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/communication-media/staff/cristian-vaccari/> Co-Director, Centre for Research in Communication and Culture <https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crcc/> Editor-in-Chief, *The International Journal of Press/Politics <https://journals.sagepub.com/home/hijb>* ****************************************************** New book: Outside the Bubble: <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/outside-the-bubble-9780190858483?la…>Social Media and Political Participation in Western Democracies <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/outside-the-bubble-9780190858483?la…> (with Augusto Valeriani, OUP 2021) ****************************************************** Personal website: https://cristianvaccari.com/ Google Scholar profile <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3_TethEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao> Twitter: @prof_vaccari <https://twitter.com/prof_vaccari> Preferred pronouns: he/him/his

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[Call for Papers] TikTok and Social Movements Symposium (20 September 2021)
by Jin Lee 27 Aug '21

27 Aug '21

Hello friends at AoIR! I hope everyone is keeping well as best as you can. I am delighted to share a CfP for a one-day virtual Symposium "TikTok and Social Movements", hosted by TikTok Cultures Research Network and supported by the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University. Attached as.pdf and in plain text below. Please feel free to circulate among interested parties. I look forward to seeing you at the Symposium! Thank you in advance Jin * *Call for Papers: TikTok and Social Movements Symposium (20 September 2021)* The recent growing popularity of TikTok has transformed the cultures and practices of social movements online worldwide. Despite several concerns towards the app, regarding weak security (Chae, 2020; Dziedzic, 2020), moral panics incited by malicious content on TikTok (Purwaningsih, 2018) and some countries’ (temporary) ban on the platform (e.g. Indonesia, Pakistan, India), TikTok has rapidly grown as the “hottest app of 2020” in the world (Brigham, 2020). Its functionality (e.g. short-video, voiceover, meme template, background music, duet, hashtag) and unique genres (e.g. dance, comedy, social media challenge) have expanded existing social media cultures and enabled users to engage with other users, social issues, and even misinformation and online toxicity with ease and fun. As part of such cultural moves, TikTok users establish their vernacular cultures and find their meaningful use of the platform by leading or participating in various types of movements for global awareness, social change, and civic politics. This includes Young TikTok users’ climate activism (Hautea et al., 2021); Growing anti-racist movements, such as the continuation of “Black Lives Matter” on TikTok (Janfaza, 2020; Richardson, 2020); and emerging hashtag streams like #StopAsianHate in response to increasing violence against Asians in the pandemic (Hanson, 2021). The affordances of TikTok provide room for creativity with music and filters powered by AI technologies, which facilitates the formulation of identity politics and cultures. Recent examples include Young Indian women’s lip-syncing to Bollywood songs against the caste system (Subramanian, 2021); LGBTQI+ users’ use of various filters to advocate for diversity (Simpson & Semaan, 2021); Young users’ meme cultures (Zeng & Abidin, 2021) as consciousness building work (Anderson & Keehn, 2020; Literat & Kligler-Vilenchik, 2019); Older generations’ collaboration with younger generations (Hood, 2020). However, social movements on TikTok are not always specifically targeted towards social justice, but may often also advocate for specific beliefs that mirror global politics, such as Anti-vaccine movements and distribution of misinformation (Basch et al., 2021); Far-right movements (Weimann & Masri, 2020). Focusing on the newly emerging cultures on TikTok, scholars in Media Studies, Communication Studies, Sociology, and Anthropology also have begun to develop “TikTok Studies”, looking for instance at emergent meme cultures on TikTok (Zeng & Abidin, 2021; Zeng et al., 2020; Zulli & Zulli, 2020), TikTokers as new types of internet celebrities (Abidin, 2021), users’ music practices (Kaye et al., 2021), the emergence of new teenage pop culture (De Leyn et al., 2021), online learning on TikTok (Li et al., 2021; Literat, 2021), novel methodologies for TikTok (Schellewald, 2021), and the newly emerging geopolitics around the app (Gray, 2021). In response to this expansion of scholarship on TikTok and alongside the TikTok Cultures Research Network’s ethos to cultivate diversity and equity in academic scholarship, we will be holding a one-day Symposium to showcase emergent research on the potentials, promises, pitfalls, and parameters of such social movements on TikTok. The Symposium seeks to provide a meaningful opportunity to reflect on the evolving cultures and practices around the civic and social movements on TikTok, wherein various actors on the platform across the globe advocate for social justice and specific values, develop grassroots networks and resources, and engage with others. We invite submissions on themes that include, but are not limited to: • Politics, digital circulation, and/or economies of movements on TikTok • Online activism, campaigns, and protest on TikTok • Intersections of sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, and more on TikTok • Emerging TikTok practices and communities for advocacy • Far-right, or alt-right movements on TikTok • Roles and affordances of the platform technologies in mobilizing movements • Surveillance of TikTok movements • Consequences and pitfalls of TikTok movements HDRs, ECRs (up to 5 years post-PhD + career interruptions), and scholars in/or from the Global South are strongly encouraged to apply. A selection of papers will also be considered for inclusion in a Special Issue tentatively entitled “TikTok and Social Movements” that will be published in a top-ranked peer-reviewed journal in the field of Media Studies, Internet Studies, and Communication Studies. For consideration in this Symposium, please submit abstracts (up to 250 words) on previously unpublished papers and a short bio (up to 100 words) to TikTok Cultures Research Network (tiktokcultures(a)gmail.com) *Key Dates:* 03 September 2021 – Abstracts and biographies due 08 September 2021 – Notifications of acceptance 20 September 2021 – TikTok and Social Movements Symposium, tentatively 1200–1600hrs, GMT+8 We look forward to receiving your submissions! Please contact TikTok Cultures Research Network (tiktokcultures(a)gmail.com) with any questions about this event. This Symposium is the fourth event organized by the TikTok Cultures Research Network, an Asia Pacific-based Network dedicated to understanding and developing qualitative and cultural approaches to studying the impact of TikTok on society, founded by A/Prof Crystal Abidin and supported by a network of Founding Members in October 2020. This event is supported by the Centre for Culture and Technology, and financed by Strategic Investment funding from the Faculty of Humanities at Curtin University. TikTok and Social Movements team, Dr Jin Lee, A/Prof Crystal Abidin, and Dr Bondy Kaye -- Jin Lee, PhD Research Fellow, Internet Studies, Curtin University

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[CFP] PTIM 2021 call for proposals is up
by Vasilis Ververis 26 Aug '21

26 Aug '21

Hello, The Pluggable Transport Implementers’ Meeting (PTIM) will take place from October 19 through 21, 2021. There is an open call for proposals; community sessions, lighting talks and workshops or other. The form is located here (no account required): https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/f9yaxadQGCClhvrt26sxwT2Gxq+CHC1q+eQ2… More info: https://www.pluggabletransports.info/blog/ptim2021-announcement/ Cheers, ~Vasilis -- PGP: 8F04 F866 2A7B 83BB 0080 D806 2522 6B00 CA5B 7208 https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/8F04F8662A7B83BB0080D8062522…

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Reminder/Deadline approaching: Call for Papers – Artificial Intelligence and the Human – Submission Deadline 20 September 2021
by Steven Mark Champion 25 Aug '21

25 Aug '21

C A L L F O R P A P E R S Conference and edited volume Artificial intelligence and the human – Cross-cultural perspectives on science and fiction A Japanese-German conference in Berlin, Germany 12 and 13 May 2022 & Edited volume (2023) Current debates on artificial intelligence often conflate the realities of AI technologies with the fictional renditions of what they might one day become. They are said to be able to learn, make autonomous decisions or process information much faster than humans, which raises hopes and fears alike. What if these useful technologies will one day develop their own intentions that run contrary to those of humans? The line between science and fiction is becoming increasingly blurry: what is already a fact, what is still only imagination; and is it even possible to make this clear-cut distinction? Innovation and development goals in the field of AI are inspired by popular culture, such as its portrayal in literature, comics, film or television. At the same time, images of these technologies drive discussions and set particular priorities in politics, business, journalism, religion, civil society, ethics or research. Fictions, potentials and scenarios inform a society about the hopes, risks, solutions and expectations associated with new technologies. But what is more, the discourses on AI, robots and intelligent, even sentient machines are nothing short of a mirror of the human condition: they renew fundamental questions on concepts such as consciousness, free will and autonomy or the ways we humans think, act and feel. Imaginations about the human and technologies are far from universal, they are culturally specific. This is why a cross-cultural comparison is crucial for better understanding the relationship between AI and the human and how they are mutually constructed by uncovering those aspects that are regarded as natural, normal or given. Focusing on concepts, representations and narratives from different cultures, the conference aims to address two axes of comparison that help us make sense of the diverse realities of artificial intelligence and the ideas of what is human: Science and fiction, East Asia and the West. Papers are invited on the following topics (among others): - Which meanings and functions are ascribed to AI technologies and robots? - How is science informed by popular discursive images of AI? - Which cultural differences are there concerning the relationship between the natural and the artificial? What are the particular traditions of how to represent the human and its technological surrogates? - What can the different cultural and conceptual histories tell us about our present and future with artificial intelligence? Besides papers on these more general topics, we also invite case studies on innovative technologies and their fictional precursors as well as on the social, ethical or political contexts in which they are applied. All contributions are expected to address the comparative perspective on East Asian and Euro-American discourses. Relevant issues and perspectives for these comparisons include but are not limited to cyberpunk and science-fiction in literature and film, public debates and imaginations of AI, the relation between simulation and reality, materiality, historical and legal accounts, sociotechnical imaginaries and politics. We welcome contributions from scholars of diverse disciplines, such as cognitive science, computer science, cultural studies, literature and film studies, media and communication studies, psychology, political science, science and technology studies or sociology. Interdisciplinary approaches (e.g., those combining social, cultural and technical perspectives) as well as perspectives from practitioners and developers are particularly encouraged. Submission process - Extended abstracts of approximately 4,000 to 6,000 characters in length (excl. references) should be submitted no later than 20 September 2021 to ai21(a)hiig.de - Speakers will be notified by 15 November 2021. Conference and publication of selected papers in an edited volume - The conference will take place on Thursday 12 and Friday 13 May 2022 in Berlin. - Invitations for the submission of selected full manuscripts sent out in June 2022. - Full manuscripts of between 30.000 to 50.000 characters (excluding references) to be submitted by September 2022. - Comprehensive review returned to authors in December 2022; final papers due in February 2023. - The edited volume will be published in mid-2023. If you have any questions, you can contact the conference organisers via ai21(a)hiig.de. For more information, visit our website at hiig.de/events/ai21. Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin Thomas Christian Bächle Christian Katzenbach Japanese-German Center Berlin Phoebe Stella Holdgrün Waseda University, Tokyo Katsumi Watanabe -- <http://www.hiig.de/>Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft gGmbH Französische Straße 9 · 10117 Berlin T +49 30 200 760 82 · F +49 30 206 089 60 · www.hiig.de <https://www.hiig.de> <http://www.facebook.com/HIIG.Berlin> <https://twitter.com/hiig_berlin> <https://www.instagram.com/hiigberlin/> Gesellschaftssitz Berlin | Amtsgericht Berlin Charlottenburg | HRB 140911B | USt-ID DE 291 151 171 Forschungsdirektorium: Prof. Dr. Jeanette Hofmann (Geschäftsführung) · Prof. Dr. Björn Scheuermann · Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Schildhauer · Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulz | Geschäftsführung: Dr. Karina Preiß

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Winter School - Global mobilities, securities and social justice
by Nagy, V. (Veronika) 24 Aug '21

24 Aug '21

Please encourage and forward this e-mail to potentially interested students, (future) PhD candidates, researchers and professionals interested in human mobilities. MIGROBAL Winter school: Global mobilities, securities and social justice - Transnational objectives about theories, discourses, and empirical research. 1 – 10 November 2021, Utrecht, the Netherlands (On Campus) Application deadline: 6 September 2021. MIGROBAL Winter School | Global Mobilities, Securities and Social Justice: Transnational Objectives About Theories, Discourses, and Empirical Research | Universiteit Utrecht (uu.nl)<https://www.uu.nl/en/events/migrobal-winter-school-global-mobilities-securi…> Keynotes by Prof. Dimitris Dalakoglou and Dr. Darshan Vigneswaran Organized within The Centre for Global Challenges Dear colleagues, students and associates, We would like to invite you to our MIGROBAL Winter School titled ´Global mobilities, securities and social justice - Transnational objectives about theories, discourses, and empirical research’. It will take place from 1 – 10 November 2021 in Janskerkhof 3, Utrecht, the Netherlands. By employing an interactive course outline and engaging in a collective research project, this winter school aims at developing new research perspectives on social justice, security and technology in the field of mobilities. The focus lies on critical perspectives of media implications, cultural and gender conflicts and technological challenges in the migration domain with a strong emphasis on new empirical research methods. See our website to find more information on the theme and substance of the winter school, the course program, Keynote speakers and lecturers, the application procedure and practical matters like the entrance fee: MIGROBAL Winter School | Global Mobilities, Securities and Social Justice: Transnational Objectives About Theories, Discourses, and Empirical Research | Universiteit Utrecht (uu.nl)<https://www.uu.nl/en/events/migrobal-winter-school-global-mobilities-securi…>. We invite PhD candidates, young researchers (postdocs), other motivated scholars young and old in and outside the UU programs, and professionals interested in human mobilities across the globe to apply. The deadline is 6 September 2021, but changing COVID regulations might enable us to assess late applications too. Please share and distribute this event widely among your networks. Feel free to contact us if you have any further questions. Kind regards/Met vriendelijke groet/Üdvözlettel, Dr. Veronika Nagy Assistant Professor Utrecht University Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology v.nagy(a)uu.nl<mailto:v.nagy@uu.nl> | +31 30 253 7125 (secretariaat) +31641035072 Post Address: Newtonlaan 231 3584 BH Utrecht Visiting address:Newtonlaan 201 3584 BH Utrecht https://uu.academia.edu/VeronikaNagy

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