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Re: [Air-L] [CFP] Pluggable Transports Small Grants Program
by Vasilis Ververis 29 Jul '21

29 Jul '21

Dear all, The deadline for the submissions has been extended to August 8th, 2021. https://www.pluggabletransports.info/blog/small-grants-2021/ Greetings, ~Vasilis

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Position Openings, Ada Lovelace Institute
by Andrew Strait 29 Jul '21

29 Jul '21

Hi everyone, The Ada Lovelace Institute is an independently funded non-profit research and deliberative body based in London that seeks to ensure data and AI work for people and society. We're hiring two roles - one focussed on EU AI policy, and the other focussed on UK policy. These close next Tuesday and Wednesday respectively. Details for both roles can be found below: https://app.beapplied.com/apply/r2rfcceq4w?utm_source=AdaTw https://app.beapplied.com/apply/nkaqzp3apx?AdaTw Best wishes, -- Andrew Strait Associate Director of Research Partnerships

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WEBCAST WED-FRI: West Africa Internet Governance Forum #WAIGF2021
by Joly MacFie 29 Jul '21

29 Jul '21

We are into Day 2 of this, which has two parallel tracks. There is interpretation on the zoom calls. I am only able to stream a couple as we have the West Africa Peering Forum coming up at 14:00 UTC. You can catch up with yesterday's sessions on the livestream page. Nous en sommes au deuxième jour, qui comporte deux pistes parallèles. Il y a une interprétation sur les appels de zoom. Je ne peux diffuser que quelques-uns car nous avons le West Africa Peering Forum à 14h00 UTC. Vous pouvez suivre les sessions d'hier sur la page de diffusion en direct. [image: livestream (EN)] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/waigf2021> On *Wednesday-Friday 28–30 July, 2021* the 13th *West Africa Internet Governance Forum <https://waigf.org/>* (WAIGF) will be convened with the theme '*Digital Inclusion and Access for a resilient West Africa*'. This will again be a virtual event. Not all sessions will be livestreamed, but recordings will be available. *LIVESTREAM ENGLISH http://livestream.com/internetsociety/waigf2021 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/waigf2021>* Du *mercredi au vendredi 28-30 juillet 2021*, le 13e *Forum sur la gouvernance de l'Internet en Afrique de l'Ouest <https://waigf.org/>* (WAIGF) se tiendra sur le thème «* Inclusion et accès numériques pour une Afrique de l'Ouest résiliente* ». Ce sera à nouveau un événement virtuel. Toutes les sessions ne seront pas diffusées en direct, mais des enregistrements seront disponibles. *LIVESTREAM FRANÇAIS http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/waigf2021 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/waigf2021>* *PROGRAM https://waigf.sched.com/ <https://waigf.sched.com/>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://www.waigf.org/registration/ <https://www.waigf.org/registration/>* (EN/FR) *REAL TIME TEXT https://www.streamtext.net/text.aspx?event=CFI-WAIGF <https://www.streamtext.net/text.aspx?event=CFI-WAIGF> *(EN) *TWITTER #WAIGF2021 http://bit.ly/WAIGF2021 <http://bit.ly/WAIGF2021>* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUnNtSa1YbyHgdTrMzLNvUg <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUnNtSa1YbyHgdTrMzLNvUg> (WAIGF)* *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/waigf <https://www.facebook.com/waigf>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/waigf2021 <https://archive.org/details/waigf2021>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14398/ -------------------------------------- - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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CfP for Special Issue of Policy & Internet on Influencer Regulations
by Crystal Abidin 29 Jul '21

29 Jul '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 Special Issue of Policy & Internet on 'Influencer regulations, Governance, and Social-cultural issues in the Asia Pacific Region', co-edited by Crystal Abidin (Curtin), Jian Xu (Deakin), and Jonathon Hutchinson (Sydney). This is a special call for papers on Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Pakistan. Attached as .pdf, and in plain text below. Please feel free to circulate among interested parties. Thank you in advance + Take care, /Crystal * Influencer Regulations, Governance and Socio-cultural Issues in the Asia Pacific region Special Issue of Policy & Internet Co-edited by Crystal ABIDIN, Jian XU, Jonathon HUTCHINSON Targeted CfP for papers on: Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Pakistan Influencer and micro-celebrity research has become a popular interdisciplinary research area across digital media studies and celebrity studies in the past few years, including a growing interest in the Global South (e.g. Abidin 2018, Abidin & Brown 2018, Hurley 2019, Hopkins 2019, Lukács 2020) and their growth on platforms outside of Silicon Valley (e.g. Guan 2020, Lin & De Kloet 2019, Song 2018). However, existing research in the field has still primarily focused on influencers and their types of labour (e.g. Abidin 2016, Duffy 2017, Duffy et al. 2021, Pham 2015, Raun 2018, Woodcock & Johnson 2019), their savvy around algorithms and machine learning (e.g. Bishop 2019, Bishop 2020, Carah & Dobson 2016, Cotter 2018), and various aspects of their follower relations (e.g. Berryman & Kavka 2017) and monetizing engagements (e.g. Gerhards 2019, Johnson & Woodcock 2019, Luvaas 2016, Zhang et al. 2019, Zou 2018), leaving the regulation and governance of influencers still an under-researched topic from the perspective of Social Science & Humanities (e.g. Chen et al. 2020, Cunningham & Craig 2019) considering socio-cultural issues. (For studies on Influencer governance from the perspective of Law, please see e.g. Goanta & Ranchordà 2020). In this Special Issue, we consider the regulation and governance of influencers not only through the lens and framework of specific rules, laws, policies, and regulations that set norms on the practices of influencers, but also the broader social, cultural, moral, technical, industrial, and political factors and restrictions to which Influencers are subject in order to accumulate sustainable impact and income. Moreover, we understand the governance of influencers as a process wherein multiple stakeholders are involved in the influencer industry, including official regulatory bodies, digital platforms, influencers and their agencies, endorsed brands and fans, resolve conflicts over emerging problems to shape the practices, ethics, economy and culture of influencers. The need to examine these issues of regulation and governance is pertinent in the Asia-Pacific region considering that it presently contains the world’s largest population of active social media users, the most vibrant and diverse digital economies and influencer cultures, as well as among the most dynamic and complicated internet regulations and policies. The Special Issue advocates for a ‘turn to regulation and governance’ of influencer studies by taking influencers as a ‘new subject’ in the globally booming digital economy and culture. We are interested in papers that critically and subtly investigate various regulation and governing issues on influencers in the Asia-Pacific region, including but not limited to specific case studies of controversies, new enactments in regulation and law, concerns around advertorial disclosure and tax transparency, regulation and censorship of influencers’ content creation, platform and/or state interventions into influencer management, influencer management systems, and various socio-cultural concerns on the regulation of topics pertaining to race & ethnicity, sex & sexuality, age & ageism, class & inclusivity, ability & accessibility, etc. The Special Issue will significantly contribute to the growing field of Influencer Studies, especially in the Asia Pacific region. More broadly, it will also greatly contribute to the studies of internet regulations and governance, digital economy, digital culture and celebrity studies in the Asia Pacific and beyond. Policy & Internet is one of the most prestigious journals in the field of internet and digital media studies, with a particular focus on the evolving relationship between the internet, digital technologies and public policy. It is an international multidisciplinary journal in a new and fragmented field. The potential audience for the Journal is therefore very wide. Please ensure that there is enough context to your argument that the paper can have value for people outside of your specific field or geographical region. Papers should be succinct, written in clear English, and closely and critically argued. A word count between 6,000-8,000 words is ideal. We are unlikely to accept papers that are mostly or entirely descriptive, or that lack depth, substance, critical assessment and clear contribution to the field. Papers in Policy & Internet are published Open Access. For further information, please see https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/19442866 Expressions of interest via a 250-word abstract and 150-word bio for contributions on Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Pakistan are invited by 09 August 2021 to A/Prof Crystal Abidin, Dr Jian Xu, and Dr Jonathon Hutchinson via email. The Editors will shortlist and respond to all contributors in the following week. Full papers are due in mid-November 2021. Thank you. P&I SI co-editors, A/Prof Crystal Abidin, Curtin University, crystal.abidin[at]curtin.edu.au Dr Jian Xu, Deakin University, j.xu[at]deakin.edu.au Dr Jonathon Hutchinson, University of Sydney, jonathon.hutchinson[at] sydney.edu.au References Abidin, Crystal. 2016. "Visibility labour: Engaging with Influencers' fashion brands and #OOTD advertorial campaigns on Instagram." Media International Australia 161(1): 86-100. Abidin, Crystal. 2018. Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing. Abidin, Crystal, and Megan Lindsay Brown (eds). 2018. Microcelebrity Around the Globe: Approaches to cultures of internet fame. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing. Berryman, Rachel & Misha Kavka. 2017. "'I guess A lot of people see me as a big sister or a friend': The role of intimacy in the celebrification of beauty vloggers." Journal of Gender Studies 26(3): 307-320. Bishop, Sophie. 2019. "Managing visibility on YouTube through algorithmic gossip." New Media & Society 21(11-12). Bishop, Sophie. 2020. "Algorithmic Experts: Selling Algorithmic Lore on YouTube." Social Media + Society 6(1) Carah, Nicholas and Amy Dobson. 2016. "Algorithmic hotness: Young women’s “promotion” and 'reconnaissance' work via social media body images." Social Media + Society 2(4). Chen, Shing-Ling S., Zhuojun Joyce Chen, & Nicole Allaire. 2020. (Eds.) Legal and Ethical Issues of Live Streaming. Washington, DC: Lexington Books. Cotter, Kelley. 2018. "Playing the visibility game: How digital influencers and algorithms negotiate influence on Instagram." New Media & Society 21(4): 895-913. Cunningham, Stuart and David Craig. 2019. "Creator Governance in Social Media Entertainment." Social Media + Society 5(4). Cunningham, Stuart and David Craig. 2021. "Creator Rights and Governance", Chapter 14 in Creator Culture, edited by Stuart Cunningham & David Craig. New York: New York University Press. Duffy, Brooke Erin. 2017. (Not) getting paid to do what you love: gender, social media, and aspirational work. New Haven: Yale University Press Duffy, Brooke Erin, Annika Pinch, Shruti Sannon, Megan Sawey. 2021. "The Nested Precarities of Platformized Creative Labor." Social Media + Society 7(2). Gerhards, Claudia. 2019. "Product placement on YouTube: An explorative study on YouTube creators' experiences with advertisers." Convergence 25(3): 516-533. Goanta, Catalina & Sofia Ranchordà. 2020. (Eds.) The Regulation of Social Media Influencers. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. Guan, Zexu. 2020. "Chinese beauty bloggers: Amateurs, entrepreneurs, and platform labour." Celebrity Studies, 12(2): 326-332. Hopkins, Julian. 2019. Monetising the Dividual Self: The Emergence of the Lifestyle Blog and Influencers in Malaysia. New York: Berghahn Books. Hurley, Zoe. 2019. "Imagined affordances of Instagram and the Fantastical Authenticity of Female Gulf-Arab Social Media Influencers." Social Media + Society 5(1). Johnson, Mark R. and Jamie Woodcock. 2019. “'And Today’s Top Donator is': How Live Streamers on Twitch.tv Monetize and Gamify Their Broadcasts." Social Media + Society 5(4). Lin, Jian, and Jeroen De Kloet. 2019. "Platformization of the Unlikely Creative Class: Kuaishou and Chinese Digital Cultural Production." Social Media + Society 5(4). Lukács, Gabriella. 2020. Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan’s Digital Economy. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. Luvaas, Brent. 2016. Street Style: An Ethnography of Fashion Blogging. London: Bloomsbury Press. Pham, Minh-Ha T. 2015. Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet: Race, Gender, and the Work of Personal Style Blogging. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. Raun, Tobias. 2018. "Capitalizing intimacy: New subcultural forms of micro- celebrity strategies and affective labour on YouTube." Convergence 24(1): 99–113. Song, Hojin. 2018. "The making of microcelebrity: AfreecaTV and the Younger Generation in Neoliberal South Korea." Social Media + Society 4(4). Woodcock, Jamie and Mark R. Johnson. 2019. "The Affective Labor and Performance of Live Streaming on Twitch.tv" Television and New Media 20(8): 813-823. Zhang, Xiaoxing, Yu Xiang, and Lei Hao. 2019. "Virtual gifting on China’s live streaming platforms: Hijacking the online gift economy." Chinese Journal of Communication 12(3): 340-355. Zou, Sheng. 2018. "Producing Value Out of the Invaluable: A Critical/Cultural Perspective on the Live Streaming Industry in China." TripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique 16(2): 805-819.

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15 PhD positions on open data in 7 European universities
by Francesca Musiani 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

Dear colleagues, The Marie Curie interdisciplinary grant Odeco towards a sustainable Open Data ECOsystem is opening 15 PhD positions in 7 European universities. One of those PhDs will be in law working with Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay in Paris to develop open data licensing models. All information on the 15 positions, from open data governance to usability, civil society, capacity, business and technical aspects, from data journalism to usage in elementary schools, is available here: https://odeco-research.eu/ Deadline to apply to all 15 positions is the end of August for a start in January 2022. All best, -- Francesca Musiani, Ph.D. Chargée de recherche | Associate Research Professor, CNRS <http://www.cnrs.fr> Directrice adjointe | Deputy Director, Centre for Internet and Society <https://cis.cnrs.fr> (UPR 2000 & GDR 2091 CNRS) Chercheuse associée | Associate Researcher, i3-CSI <http://www.csi.ensmp.fr/>, MINES ParisTech Global Fellow, Internet Governance Lab <https://internetgovernancelab.org>, American University I'm involved in: CPT-IAMCR <https://iamcr.org/s-wg/section/cpt> | Internet Policy Review <https://policyreview.info> | RESET <https://journals.openedition.org/reset/> | ISOC France <https://www.isoc.fr> | ResisTIC <https://www.resistic.org> On the Web <https://cis.cnrs.fr/francesca-musiani/> | On Twitter <https://twitter.com/franmusiani>

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Findings: School posts on Facebook could threaten student privacy
by Greenhalgh, Spencer P. 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

Hi all, The message below (from a colleague) may be of interest to folks here. Best, Spencer ------ Spencer Greenhalgh, PhD Assistant Professor, School of Information Science College of Communication and Information University of Kentucky pronouns: http://pronoun.is/he/him/his website: spencergreenhalgh.com<http://spencergreenhalgh.com> Zoom: https://uky.zoom.us/my/greenhalgh Début du message réexpédié : De: "Rosenberg, Joshua" <jmrosenberg(a)utk.edu<mailto:jmrosenberg@utk.edu>> Objet: Findings: School posts on Facebook could threaten student privacy Date: 28 juillet 2021 à 10:11:12 UTC−4 À: "Greenhalgh, Spencer" <spencer.greenhalgh(a)uky.edu<mailto:spencer.greenhalgh@uky.edu>> Hi all, writing to share an article of possible interest in the Conversation (a news/media organization for researchers to share about their research). The article is on how schools' posts on Facebook could threaten students' privacy. In our research, we found there are around nine million photos of students that are strictly publicly accessible through the pages of schools. We estimated that half a million of the photos identify students by first and last name and location. These photos could (unhappily) represent the largest collection of identifiable photos of students in the U.S. The (short) article is here: https://theconversation.com/school-posts-on-facebook-could-threaten-student… We would definitely welcome any feedback or questions as we build on this and communicate about the research and share recommendations with schools. Best, Josh -- Joshua M. Rosenberg, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, STEM Education The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Theory and Practice in Teacher Education 420 Claxton Complex, 1122 Volunteer Blvd. Homepage: https://joshuamrosenberg.com<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjoshuamro…> He/Him/His Co-author of Data Science in Education Using R<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.datasc…> (Open-access/Routledge) Co-host of About Practice<x-msg://7/:%20https:/anchor.fm/about-practice> (podcast)

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WEBCAST: Essential Tools and Resources for Community Networks / Outils et ressources essentiels pour les réseaux communautaires
by Joly MacFie 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

This is just about to start. C'est sur le point de commencer. [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/VirtualCNAfricaSummit6-1>On *Wednesday July 28 2021* at *12:00-13.30 UTC* the *Internet Society <https://www.internetsociety.org/> *and the *Association for Progressive Communications <https://apc.org/>* host '*Essential Tools and Resources for Community Networks <https://www.internetsociety.org/events/summit-community-networks-africa/202…>*'. This is the first session of the *2021/2022 Summit on Community Networks in Africa <https://www.internetsociety.org/events/summit-community-networks-africa/>*. The event will share important tools, resources, regulatory and policy insights, and will also give participants an opportunity to share some challenges and recommend tools that may be needed to address those gaps. Our thanks to *Mozilla <https://www.mozilla.org/>* for supporting this session. *SPEAKERS* *Carlos Rey-Moreno*, Project Coordinator, Association for Progressive Communications (APC) *Steve Song*, Policy Advisor, Mozilla Corporation *Verengai Mabika*, Senior Policy Advisor, Africa, Internet Society *Sol Luca de Tena*, Acting Chief Executive Officer, Zenzeleni Networks NPC *MODERATOR* *Jean Louis Fendji* – Senior Lecturer, University of Ngaoundere / Research Director, AfroLeadership *LIVESTREAM ENGLISH http://livestream.com/internetsociety/VirtualCNAfricaSummit6-1 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/VirtualCNAfricaSummit6-1>* (Captions) [image: livestream (fr)] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/VirtualCNAfricaSummit6-1>Le *mercredi 28 juillet 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 « *Outils et ressources essentiels pour les réseaux communautaires <https://www.internetsociety.org/fr/events/summit-community-networks-africa/…>* ». Il s'agit de la première session du *Sommet 2021/2022 sur les réseaux communautaires en Afrique <https://www.internetsociety.org/fr/events/summit-community-networks-africa/>*. L'événement partagera des outils, des ressources, des informations réglementaires et politiques importants, et donnera également aux participants l'occasion de partager certains défis et de recommander des outils qui pourraient être nécessaires pour combler ces lacunes. Merci à *Mozilla <https://www.mozilla.org/fr/>* d'avoir soutenu cette session. *INTERVENANTS* *Carlos Rey-Moreno*, coordinateur de projet, Association for Progressive Communications (APC) *Steve Song*, conseiller politique, Mozilla Corporation *Verengai Mabika*, Conseillère principale en politiques, Afrique, Internet Society *Sol Luca de Tena*, directeur général par intérim, Zenzeleni Networks NPC *MODÉRATEUR* *Jean Louis Fendji* – Maître de conférences, Université de Ngaoundéré / Directeur de recherche, AfroLeadership *LIVESTREAM FRANÇAIS http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/VirtualCNAfricaSummit6-1 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety2/VirtualCNAfricaSummit6-1>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3x6h6zU <https://bit.ly/3x6h6zU> *(EN/FR) (EN Captions) *REAL TIME TEXT https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC <https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC> *(English) *TWITTER #VirtualCNAfricaSummit2021 <https://bit.ly/3BITQeE> #CommunityNetworks @CreyM @APC_News @stevesong @Mozilla Sol Luca de Tena @ZenzeleniNet @VerengaiMabika @internetsociety @lfendji @ISOC_Community @Mozilla #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/VirtualCNAfricaSummit6-1 <https://archive.org/details/VirtualCNAfricaSummit6-1>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14382/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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New Book – Aerial Play: Drone Medium, Mobility, Communication, and Culture
by Julia H. 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

Dear colleagues, This recent book publication might be of interest to some: Aerial Play: Drone Medium, Mobility, Communication, and Culture Julia M. Hildebrand, hildebjm(a)eckerd.edu Palgrave Macmillan (Geographies of Media Series) To access the ebook via SpringerLink: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-2195-6 To purchase a copy: https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9789811621949 (for 20% off, use token haxFj8k2bpjyMQE at checkout until Aug 17) ABOUT THE BOOK: Aerial Play explores recreational uses of consumer drones from the lenses of media ecology, mobile communication, mobilities research, and science and technology studies. The provocative ethnography discusses camera drones as mobile media for meaningful play. It thus widens perspectives onto the flying camera as foremost unmanned aircraft, spying tool, or dangerous toy towards a more comprehensive understanding of its potentials. How should we situate drone practices in recreational spaces? What ways of seeing, moving, and being do hobby drones open up? Across chapters about drone geography, communication, mobility, visuality, and human-machine relations, Aerial Play introduces novel frameworks for drone affordances, such as communication on the fly, disembodied mobilities, auratic vertical play, and drone-mindedness. In the mobile companionship with her own drone, Hildebrand contributes an innovative “auto-technographic” method for the self-reflective study of media and mobility. Ultimately, her grounded and aerial fieldwork illuminates new technological, mobile, visual, and social relations in everyday spaces. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Ch. 1 Introduction: Powerful Play Ch. 2 Understanding (with) the Drone Ch. 3 Situating Hobby Drone Practices Ch. 4 Communicating on the Fly Ch. 5 Moving and Not Moving up in the Air Ch. 6 Seeing Like a Consumer Drone Ch. 7 Dancing with My Drone Ch. 8 Conclusion: Open Skies? ENDORSEMENTS: “In a short amount of time, drones have become a ubiquitous technology. And while scholarly attention has been focused on commercial and military contexts, the recreational drone has been relatively overlooked. That is, until Aerial Play: Drone Medium, Mobility, Communication and Culture. Aerial Play addresses some of the complex debates around quotidian surveillance and mundane mobilities and how these practices recalibrate how we understand media ecology, mobile communication, mobilities research, and science and technology studies. Traversing themes such as drone geography, communication, mobility and new visualities, Aerial Play also explores how drones can help us reinvent our digital methods. Hildebrand’s playful and yet robust approach to drones encourages us to rethink the paradigm between media and mobility.” – Larissa Hjorth, RMIT University, Australia “In Aerial Play, Julia M. Hildebrand provides a serious, scholarly, and accessible study of a highly significant new medium that is altering the world that we live in, and the way that we view ourselves. Drones are not simply toys, they are our future, and this book offers us essential aid in understanding this important aspect of our evolving media environment. Drawing on the powerful tools made available via the media ecology intellectual tradition, combined with a multidisciplinary methodology, Hildebrand delivers an analysis that is both rigorous and readable, and above all insightful and provocative. Read it, and you will never look up at the sky in the same way again!” – Lance Strate, Fordham University, USA “Dr. Hildebrand offers no-nonsense and straightforward insights into one of the growing niches of drone practices: flying for fun! Written at the crossroads of mobilities and media studies, Aerial Play is a must-read for students, researchers within media, mobilities, geography, and technology studies. Recreational drone flyers may indeed also find it useful.” – Ole B. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark

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4+ PhD Scholarships at Deakin University
by Luke H 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

4+ exciting PhD Scholarships available that will be of interest of to AOIR friends and family. Please let them seep into your networks and have interested candidates respond with expressions of interest (see below) before the 1st of October. 1 & 2) "Making Motion Tangible” is a project that offers 2 scholarships for PhD candidates in a collaborative cotutelle arrangement that sees each candidate spend at least one year at Deakin (AUS) and Coventry (UK) to develop complementary research strands. Both strands will explore the application of embodied knowledge and experience in the context of practical experimentation with novel immersive multimodal haptic interfaces (eg. TESLA suits) aimed at enriching human interactions between the digital and the physical. Prospective candidates should have a background in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), media studies, serious games and/or other digital research (including accessibility and healthtech) interested in full body movement or embodied design principles. Please speak to Stefan Greuter (Deakin - stefan.greuter(a)deakin.edu.au) or Scott Delahunta (Coventry - aa9576(a)coventry.ac.uk) for more information on applying. Project details are here: https://www.deakin.edu.au/study/fees-and-scholarships/scholarships/find-a-s… 3 & 4) Deakin’s Global Digital Publics Network is interested in funding PhD projects that push knowledge on how digital media connect, transform, augment, and govern publics. One specific project (led by David Marshall - david.marshall(a)deakin.edu.au) will investigate influencers who make digital identities and personas visible in ways that move across national, language, and cultural divides. The techniques employed by these influencers may provide intercultural pathways that reflect an extension of the GDPN’s research into the active curation of emotion in digital culture shaping experiences that have previously been identified within language and national/ethnic cultural groups; this work may also identify new forms of cultural politics including how state actors are entering this space. One specific project (led by Luke Heemsbergen - luke.h(a)deakin.edu.au) will consider how the socialisation of Augmented Reality (AR) creates novel forms of identity, surveillance, and publics. It may ask how industry, research, and users react, engage, and reconfigure AR media in novel practices afforded in context. It will apply a critical methodology to technical fields to produce new insights into AR as socio-technical media infrastructures, asking how we use AR and how AR uses us. Application process is as below. 5+) Deakin’s research networks are offering funding for up to 8 other PhD scholarships that may be of interest to AOIR members via the School of Communication and Creative Arts. The research priorities that can be found here: https://www.deakin.edu.au/arts-ed/research-projects-and-scholarships . Application process is below. Apply now through Deakin’s two-stage application process (EOI+Application). Faculty of Arts and Education Expressions of Interest <https://www.deakin.edu.au/students/faculties/artsed/research> close 1 October 2021 Full online applications <https://apps.deakin.edu.au/research/hdr-application/?_ga=2.24836792.3657687…> for the next scholarship round close 31 October 2021 Faculty expressions of interest must be received at least 4 weeks prior (1 October) to the complete application deadline (31 October). More Info: https://www.deakin.edu.au/study/fees-and-scholarships/scholarships/find-a-s… Dr Luke Heemsbergen <https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=pZlj0LcAAAAJ&hl=en>| Lecturer, Communication, SCCA Co-Convener Global Digital Publics Network <https://adi.deakin.edu.au/global-digital-publics>; Co-Lead Immersive Realities - Deakin Motion Lab <https://motionlab.deakin.edu.au/> Member, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation <https://adi.deakin.edu.au/> | Science and Society Network <https://blogs.deakin.edu.au/science-and-society-network/> C5.20.01, Burwood | +61 3 924 68786 | Deakin University, Australia

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The University of Sydney seeks a Lecturer in Digital Cultures
by Justine Humphry 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

*The University of Sydney* is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Digital Cultures to join our rapidly growing and highly successful department of Media and Communications. The advertisement is on the University of Sydney website for this role (see link below). The closing date for applications is *11:30pm, 15 August 2021*. https://usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNAL_CAREER_SITE/job/Camperdown… We are a great collegial interdisciplinary team of researchers and teachers and our department is going through a period of expansion. https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/schools/school-of-literature-art-and-media/d… Please consider applying to join us in the Digital Cultures Program in the Department of Media and Communications.

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