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1-minute survey for scholars and researchers
by Aram Sinnreich 29 Jun '21

29 Jun '21

Colleagues, Pat Aufderheide and I are currently fielding a survey of professional students, faculty and researchers to support one of the papers we're presenting at the AoIR conference later this year. Please take one minute to complete the survey, and share it with your scholarly networks. https://american.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eDmbFdjOQ6ClWlg. Many thanks! Aram -- *Aram Sinnreich <http://www.sinnreich.com>* Professorand Chair Communication Studies American University <http://www.american.edu/soc/> School of Communication <http://www.american.edu/soc/> Author <http://sinnreich.com/#anchor-books>| Musician <http://sinnreich.com/#anchor-music> (he/him/his)

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CfP: Transnational Dimensions in Digital Activism and Protest
by Delia Dumitrica 29 Jun '21

29 Jun '21

Dear list members, If you are working on digital activism and protest, please consider submitting an abstract to the themed issue on "Transnational Dimensions in Digital Activism and Protest" to be published in the journal Review of Communication. Please see the full CFP below. Best, Delia Dumitrica & Giuliana Sorce REVIEW OF COMMUNICATION: THEMED ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS Transnational Dimensions in Digital Activism and Protest GUEST EDITORS: Giuliana Sorce (U of Tübingen) and Delia D. Dumitrica (Erasmus U) This themed issue aims to map international perspectives on transnational processes in digital activism and protest. Against wider claims that social movements and citizen activism are shifting from the logic of spatial organization to networked flows (Bennett & Segerberg, 2012; Mercea, 2020), this themed issue seeks to illuminate how the global and local come together in networked public spheres. Recent transnational movements such as #MeToo or Black Lives Matter yield the importance of interweaving digital communication, pre-existing activist collectives, and citizen activation on a seemingly global scale. The policing of physical protests during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have intensified reliance on digital technologies among activists and grassroots collectives (Sorce & Dumitrica, 2021), further enhancing the appeal to create transnational ties and globalize movement appeals. We ask how political causes circulate globally, what role digital technologies play, and ultimately, what “transnational” means for seemingly universal causes, global collective identity, and activist practice. In reflecting how activists across the globe employ digital media to construct a civic imaginary of a transnational polity, attention must be paid to the dialectical nature of transnational processes that simultaneously magnify the importance of locality while normalizing hybridity (Roudometof, 2016; Kraidy, 2005; Pieterse, 2015). Where previous scholarship has drawn attention to the diffusion of political causes (della Porta & Mattoni, 2014) or cultural references (Dumitrica, in press) across national borders, this themed issue focuses on how digital technologies mediate and shape transnational processes in global organizing. This includes how transnational causes move across cultural contexts and how global appeals or activist vocabularies traverse (local) initiatives, considering the ways transnational organizers create collective identities among dispersed adherents, and what digital tactics of action work for global movements. Possible contributions might examine, but are not limited to: * transnational activism as shaped by digital action * (re)direction of transnational flows in digital contention * transnational circulation of protest causes, identities, symbols, and vocabularies * formation of global dissent in networked contexts * (digital) activism, campaigns, and protest on “global” issues * global values and transnational appeals in border zone, migration, First Nation, diasporic, environmental, queer, or gender rights protest communication * roles and affordances of new media technologies in transnational organizing * digital network(ing) practices in transnational activism * narrative and rhetorical strategies in forging transnational activist alliances SUBMISSION DEADLINES AND GUIDELINES August 31, 2021 Submit extended abstract for Guest Editors’ review (max. 750 words) October 15, 2021 Submit completed manuscript for peer review (invitation only*) Extended abstracts should include the research problematic, theoretical angle, methodology, and key findings. The extended abstracts will be reviewed by the Guest Editors, who will subsequently invite a selection of authors to submit full papers. Completed manuscripts should be prepared in Microsoft Word using a 12-point common font, double- spaced, no more than 7,000 words, inclusive of all matter (abstract, keywords, endnotes, etc.). Review of Communication follows the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed., endnotes style. Abstracts and manuscripts must be submitted electronically through the Review of Communication submission site: https://rp.tandfonline.com/submission/create?journalCode=RROC<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Frp.tandfo…> Authors should identify which themed call their paper is responding to by selecting the relevant drop-down option in ScholarOne. REVIEW PROCESS In keeping with the journal’s current practice, all invited manuscripts/submissions will undergo rigorous peer review, including screening by the Guest Editors and review by at least two anonymous referees. *Please note that an invitation to submit a full manuscript does not guarantee acceptance/publication. Please direct questions about submissions to this themed issue to: Giuliana Sorce, PhD Institute of Media Studies Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen giuliana.sorce(a)uni-tuebingen.de<mailto:giuliana.sorce@uni-tuebingen.de> Delia D. Dumitrica, PhD Department of Media & Communication Erasmus University Rotterdam dumitrica(a)eshcc.eur.nl<mailto:dumitrica@eshcc.eur.nl>

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WEBCAST TODAY – ISOC KENYA ISOC FUNDAMENTALS PROGRAM 2 - Community Networks / IWN
by Joly MacFie 29 Jun '21

29 Jun '21

The 2nd ISOC KE ISOC Fundamentals webinar. The first one <https://isoc.live/14227/> was very good, full of nuanced detail. IWN may be an unfamiliar acronym, but it's one worth adopting. 'Internet Way of Networking <https://www.internetsociety.org/issues/internet-way-of-networking/>' encompasses such essential properties as openness and interoperability that make the Internet ecosystem robust and successful, and the '*Internet Impact Toolkit'* is a method of evaluating the effect of regulations on that ecosystem. ISOC Live posted: "On Tuesday June 29 2021 at 15:00-16:30 EAT (12:00-13:30 UTC) the Internet Society Kenya Chapter hosts 'ISOC Fundamentals Program - Community Networks / Internet Way of Networking'. This is the second of two webinars expounding on ISOC Fundamentals themes." [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/isocke-fun2>On *Tuesday June 29 2021* at *15:00-16:30 EAT* (12:00-13:30 UTC) the *Internet Society Kenya Chapter* <https://www.internetsociety.ke/> hosts '*ISOC Fundamentals Program - Community Networks / Internet Way of Networking <https://bit.ly/3ha0lxD>*'. This is the second of two webinars expounding on *ISOC Fundamentals <https://www.internetsociety.org/chapters/fundamentals-program/2021/>* themes. *PRESENTERS* *Luke Kapchanga* *Alphonce Oywech* *Lumumba Irvine* *MODERATORS* *Joel Okomoli* *Athena Morgan* *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/isocke-fun2 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/isocke-fun2>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3ha0lxD <https://bit.ly/3ha0lxD>* *REAL TIME TEXT* *https://bit.ly/3x40OIF* <https://bit.ly/3x40OIF> *TWITTER #isocfundamentals <https://bit.ly/3a746B8> #communitynetworks #iwn @ISOC_Kenya @mobile3xx2 @alphonceoywech Lumumba Irvine @jokomoli @athmorgana* *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/>* *ARCHIVE https://archive.org/details/isocke-fun2 <https://archive.org/details/isocke-fun2>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14238/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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WEBCAST TODAY: Digital Watch Internet Governance Briefing for June 2021
by Joly MacFie 29 Jun '21

29 Jun '21

No simulcasting this month as we have ISOC Kenya in the same slot. I will look to get a rough transcript up asap. ISOC Live posted: "On Tuesday June 29 2021 at 12:00 UTC the Geneva Internet Platform presents its Digital Watch Internet Governance Briefing for June 2021. Catch up on the major internet governance and digital policy updates from all around the globe and join experts as the" [image: YouTube] <https://youtu.be/U-HnCtbRnjE>On *Tuesday June 29 2021* at *12:00 UTC* the *Geneva Internet Platform* <https://giplatform.org/> presents its *Digital Watch Internet Governance Briefing for June 2021 <https://dig.watch/events/briefing-76-internet-governance-june-2021>*. Catch up on the major internet governance and digital policy updates from all around the globe and join experts as they analyse the existing and emerging policy trends. The June Briefing will provide a round-up of policy updates, analysed by our experts, including: The Biden-Putin summit in Geneva, which signalled the start of a consultation process on cybersecurity; The G7 Summit, NATO Summit, and the EU-US Summit, all of which discussed digital policy, including frontier technologies, taxation, ransomware, e-trade, and data flows; The second cyber OEWG's organisational session; plus the usual roundup of forthcoming events and regional reports. *TEAM* *Vladimir Radunovic*, Diplo *Stephanie Borg Psaila*, Diplo *Katarina Andjelkovic*, Diplo *Jovan Kurbalija*, Diplo *Andrijana Gavrilovic*, Diplo *Marco Lotti*, Diplo *Amrita Choudhry*, APAC *Hanane Boujemi*, MENA *Grace Mtung'u*, Africa *Ana Maria Corrêa*, LAC *LIVESTREAM https://youtu.be/U-HnCtbRnjE <https://youtu.be/U-HnCtbRnjE>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3A8kJrM <https://bit.ly/3A8kJrM>* *TWITTER #thegip <https://bit.ly/3cFvqse> @GenevaGIP* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.facebook.com/DiploFoundation/live <https://www.facebook.com/DiploFoundation/live>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14246/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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'The Social Media Age: Book Launch on June 30th
by Zoetanya Sujon 29 Jun '21

29 Jun '21

Dear Aoir colleagues, You are warmly invited to my book launch for 'The Social Media Age <https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/the-social-media-age/book259859>', taking place TOMORROW, with invited speakers: Kylie Jarrett <https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/kylie-jarrett>, Mehita Iqani <https://www.wits.ac.za/staff/academic-a-z-listing/i/mehitaiqaniwitsacza/>, Deen Freelon <http://hussman.unc.edu/directory/faculty/deen-freelon>, and two graduate guests Prachee Mashru and Sophie Beeching. June 30th 16:00-17:30 (BST / UTC+1) Booking here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-social-media-age-book-launch-tickets-159… The book introduces a framework for making sense of social media, pushing thinking past seamless interfaces and towards social technologies as infrastructures of everyday life. Understanding social media means asking questions about society, culture and economy. What we find are complex tensions between platforms and experience of the social as they shape and shift social relations with often paradoxical and complex consequences. Memes and selfies, for example, fit into the rise of datafication and dataveillance, as well as broader transformations in screen industries, social movements, intimacies and personal connections. This book introduces and examines the full scope of social media. It brings together the key concepts, theories and research necessary for making sense of their meanings and consequences, both hopefully and critically. Please come join us! Take good care, Zo -- 'You are marvellous. The Gods wait to delight in you.' ('The Laughing Heart' by Charles Bukowski).

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SSN Seminar: 'Real Time in Rear View' with Dr Canay Özden-Schilling
by Thao Phan 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

Please join us for this online seminar hosted by the Deakin Science and Society Network <https://scienceandsocietynetwork.deakin.edu.au/> (SSN) and Melbourne STS Lab. You can join the conversation on Twitter by following us at @SSNDeakin and using the hashtags #SSNseminar *Register here: *https://ssnseminar-canayozdenschilling.eventbrite.com.au <https://ssnseminar-canayozdenschilling.eventbrite.com.au/> *Date/time:* Tuesday 6th July, 12pm - 1:15pm (Australian Eastern Daylight Time, GMT+11) *Title:*Real Time in Rear View: Techno-Economic Acts in Markets of Electricity Abstract: This paper explores what “real time” means to market actors. I focus on traders, market designers, and engineers acting in electricity markets. For these experts, real time concerns the time interval in which they can no longer intervene using the instruments available to them. In real-time arrangements these intervals shrink, as experts are able to demand cooperation from nonhuman counterparts, like electricity flows, more frequently than before. To study real time’s proliferation across contemporary capitalism, I propose the analytic of “techno-economics”—the economic field where humans and nonhumans co-determine each others’ ranges of action. More broadly, this essay explores the diversity of capitalist time—a notion often occluded in the scholarship that either submits to the homogeneity of space-time compression or diagnoses temporal heterogeneity only outside capitalism. About the speaker: Canay Özden-Schilling is an anthropologist of technology and capitalism. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. Her first book, The Current Economy: Electricity Markets and Techno-Economics, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press in June 2021. Her second project explores global supply chain logistics, as seen from the port cities of Mersin (Turkey) and Singapore. About the discussant: Dr David Boarder Giles is a Lecturer in Anthropology at Deakin University who writes about waste, cities, and social movements. His current projects all explore the ways in which discarded surpluses—of people, places, and things—are circulated in “global” cities. He is the author of A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food Not Bombs and the World-Class Waste of Global Cities, which will be published by Duke University Press in August 2021. Dr Shama Naz Islam is a senior lecturer in Electrical Engineering at Deakin University. She is a leading researcher in the area of IoT for smart energy applications, energy management, peer-to-peer energy trading, and data analytics for smart grid. In 2015, she completed her PhD from the Australian National University. She is the lead investigator of 'Energy Optimisation for Geelong Households' project funded by the City of Greater Geelong and has also attracted over AUD$2 million in grants over the last 4 years. She has received Future Women Leader’s Award from Monash University in 2017. She has been awarded Victoria Fellowship 2019 for her contributions in scientific innovations in Victoria. Watch the seminar: Seminar will be available to stream on YouTube live. Access using the live link: https://youtu.be/UK_kz52Rp3w <https://youtu.be/9WOJdCjA6LE> Date/time: Tuesday 6th July, 12pm - 1:15pm (Australian Eastern Daylight Time, GMT+11) Q&A with the speaker to follow. To send questions/participate in the chat, you'll need to sign-in using a YouTube account <https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-comment-on-youtube?r=AU&IR=T>. The seminar will be recorded and available to watch on the SSN YouTube channel after the Livestream. If you have any questions, please send to ssn-info(a)deakin.edu.au

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New report: Unreliable Guidelines, new research by Art+Feminism
by Monika Sengul-Jones 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

Dear Air-L members: This year I joined Art+Feminism to research guidelines on using reliable sources in French, English and Spanish Wikipedias. Our project used an intersectional feminist methodology to address how Wikipedia trainers involved in the Art+Feminism movement approach the reliable source guidelines in French, English and Spanish Wikipedias. Our rigorous analysis ends with recommendations for more inclusive and diverse Wikipedias. The newly released report may be of interest to members of this listserv: Unreliable Guidelines: Reliable Sources and Marginalized Communities in French, English and Spanish Wikipedia by Amber Berson, Monika Sengul-Jones and Melissa Tamani Art+Feminism available here: https://artandfeminism.org/resources/research/unreliable-guidelines/ Our research was partially funded by Wikicred. The report is initially available in English. Please read & share, and *apologies for cross-posting* -- Best Monika Sengul-Jones, PhD (she/her) Independent scholar www.monikasjones.com

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2021 NYU Public Interest Technology (PIT) Convention and Career Fair - Oct 14/15
by Joly MacFie 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

[scraped from linked in] https://www.abettertech.net/ The 2021 NYU Public Interest Technology (PIT) Convention and Career Fair is a virtual hands-on event for professionals, researchers and students interested in creating a better world through technology. It is the first convening of its kind in the US, bringing together the country’s most talented students and leading researchers with organizations and companies that are at the forefront of creating responsible and accountable tech that serves the public interest. Through hands-on workshops, roundtables, keynotes, fire-presentations, a hackathon, and a virtual career fair, participants will share the latest developments in the PIT field, learn about careers in public interest technology, and connect with professionals working in this area across lots of different sectors and industries. Join the convention that brings together over 43 universities across the U.S. and host a workshop, a dialogue, or present your research, idea, or project in a short fire presentation! Let’s build A Better Tech community. We are looking for technologists, educators, researchers, companies, advocacy groups, recruiters and other professionals working in public interest technology to present their work and connect to PIT professionals, students, and researchers. -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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WEBCAST TODAY - EuroDIG - IoT Technologies and Standards Evolution and their impact on Core Internet Values
by Joly MacFie 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

This is under way.- not my stream, but I am running real time text at *https://bit.ly/3jmliYP <https://bit.ly/3jmliYP>* [image: YouTube] <https://youtu.be/0UO5emFG4kU>On *Monday 29 June 2021* at *10:00-11:00 CEST* (08:00-09:00 UTC), as a *EuroDIG 2021 <https://eurodig.org/>* pre-event, the *Dynamic Coalition on Internet of Things <https://eurodig.org%20https//www.iot-dynamic-coalition.org/>* (DC-IoT) and *Dynamic Coalition on Core Internet Values <https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/dynamic-coalition-on-core-…>* (DC-CIV) host ‘*IoT Technologies and Standards Evolution and their impact on Core Internet Values <https://eurodigwiki.org/wiki/IoT_Technologies_and_Standards_Evolution_and_t…>*‘ to examine recent IoT standard developments and associated technologies and if they break Core Internet Values. *Key participants:* *Jeff Wilbur*, Internet Society *Benoît Ampeau*, AFNIC *Dominique Lazanski*, Last Press Label *Rudolf van der Berg*, Stratix *Session organisers:* *Shane Tews*, Dynamic Coalition on Internet of Things (DC-IoT) *Olivier Crépin-Leblond*, Dynamic Coalition on Core Internet Values (DC-CIV) *LIVESTREAM https://youtu.be/0UO5emFG4kU <https://youtu.be/0UO5emFG4kU>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3jyqHMT <https://bit.ly/3jyqHMT>* *REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3jmliYP <https://bit.ly/3jmliYP>* *TWITTER #iot #coreinternetvalues @eurodig* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14242/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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ISOC Foundation announces second round of reasearch grant awardees
by Joly MacFie 28 Jun '21

28 Jun '21

(see! We don't just spam you with webcasts!) https://www.isocfoundation.org/2021/06/second-round-of-grant-funding-awarde… *We are thrilled to award a second round of grant funding through our **Research grant programme* <https://www.isocfoundation.org/grant-programme/research-grant-programme/>* to three exciting projects that examine the future and sustainability of the Internet.* Launched in 2020, this programme supports a diverse group of researchers around the world who are generating solutions today to meet the Internet challenges of tomorrow. The selected projects examine important issues around the Internet’s relationship to society, such as: the impact of climate change on Internet infrastructure, the role of blockchain economics in the Internet economy, how best to advance climate justice, and more. Recommended for funding by an Independent Programme Review Committee, the awardees come from the Netherlands, South Africa, and the U.S. These grants are intended for applied research that will be published and made available to the scientific community at no cost. Through these grants, we look forward to enabling new research on the future of the Internet, research that will influence policy and industry decisions and ultimately help shape a more equitable and sustainable future for the Internet and the people it serves. Learn more about each awardee in the list below. 1.* University of Oregon Foundation – USA – $199,861* Theme: Greening the Internet Project Title: How to Address Climate Change Risks by Enhancing Internet Infrastructure Resilience Research Question: What is the overall resilience of Internet infrastructures to climate change-induced multi-hazard risks? 2. *The Green Web Foundation – Netherlands – $200,000* Theme: Greening the Internet Project Title: A Sustainable and Just Internet for All Research Question*: *How do we advance climate justice in the practice of Internet professionals in a plausible, desirable, accessible, and coherent way? 3.* David Johnson and Senka Hadzic – South Africa – $98,470* Theme: The Internet Economy Project Title: Incentivized network and localized services growth with blockchain economics Research Question: Can decentralized blockchain-based economic systems incentivize vulnerable communities to create and grow their own networking infrastructure, services, and content? (*In collaboration with Grassroots Economics*) *The **Research programme* <https://www.isocfoundation.org/grant-programme/research-grant-programme/>* is open to independent researchers and research institutions worldwide and is currently accepting statements of interest, to be reviewed on a rolling basis. Research themes include: Greening the Internet, The Internet Economy, Decolonizing the Internet, and A Trustworthy Internet. Grants of up to US$200,000 will be awarded for research lasting up to 2 years.* -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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