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Resending a 2-minutes experiment about the theater experience
by Maria Rosa Miccoli 16 Jun '21

16 Jun '21

Dear all, I have recently written to you to advertise a very short experiment about the value of leisure activities during a pandemic. I am sending you the link again because I am still far away from the target sample. Here is the link: http://wextor.eu:8080/iSciencecore/vofr/index.html?source=mlr I suggest you to use your Desktop, with a preference for browsers such as Firefox or Internet Explorer. Also, please send me an e-mail if you have problems with the link and/or in filling out the form: I will be happy to help you! I also renew my invitation for suggestions and comments on the study :) We have been living an extraordinary era that required us to give up on many leisure activities for a very important reason. Now, what type of value do we give to leisure activities? I would like to investigate this topic during my first year of PhD at the Konstanz University. For this reason, I kindly invite you to participate in a 2 minutes experiment about the theater experience. Thanks to everyone who finds two minutes to participate! I'm also open to advice on possible platforms to publish experiments online: I'm already using reddit and some groups on Facebook and LinkedIn but if you know any other groups/mailing lists, please let me know. Best wishes and stay safe! Maria Rosa Miccoli PhD student @Konstanz University

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3 Positions Amsterdam Digital Humanities and Data Science
by Blanke, Tobias 16 Jun '21

16 Jun '21

Dear all The University of Amsterdam is looking to fill three positions in the new Amsterdam Data Science centre (https://www.uva.nl/en/content/news/news/2020/10/uva-to-accelerate-data-driv…) The positions are all linked to various questions of digital humanities and data science. The deadline is quite tight but the good news is that the positions are all permanent. * Data Engineer in Cultural Data Collection and Linking (1 FTE): https://www.uva.nl/shared-content/uva/en/vacancies/2021/06/21-445-data-engi… * Cultural Analytics (1 FTE): https://www.uva.nl/shared-content/uva/en/vacancies/2021/06/21-456-research-… * Ethical Data Scientist (0.5 FTE): https://www.uva.nl/shared-content/uva/en/vacancies/2021/06/21-483-postdocto… All best Tobias

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This Friday! Digital literacies for a healthy democracy - DCMS Committee event - International focus
by Carmi, Elinor 16 Jun '21

16 Jun '21

Hello everyone, I hope you're all keeping well and safe these days. Join us THIS Friday for the International focused event titled - "Digital literacies for a healthy democracy" - hosted by the UK's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee. This event is part of my Academic Parliamentary Fellowship, and it is meant to feed into the DCMS Online Safety Bill*, which was previously called the Online Harms Bill. This event brings together academics, practitioners and policymakers to discuss the current digital literacies landscape and talk about possible future paths. International focused event - Friday 18th June at 14:00 (BST time) panel participants: 1. Professor Payal Arora, Professor at Erasmus University, Co-Founder of FemLab.Co and Founder and Director of Catalyst Lab 2. Marielza Oliveira, UNESCO co-Director for Freedom of Expression and Access to Information. 3. Professor Colin Rhinesmith, Associate Professor and Director of the Community Informatics Lab, Simmons University 4. Professor Marie Gillespie, Professor of Sociology at the Open University. Register here for FREE - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dcms-committee-digital-literacy-event-intern… The Twitter hashtag for the events is #DCMSComLiteracy. The beginning of the panel will start with questions prepared in advance and then the discussion will be open for questions from the audience that will be asked on the Q&A section. Insights from the event will be included in a final report for the DCMS Committee. If you're an academic, practitioner, activist, educator, or policymaker working in the areas of: - digital/data literacies - digital/data inequalities - digital/data inclusion - all topics around education Please join the debate! Your participation and contribution are extremely valuable to this work. * Here you can find the revised and recently published draft version of the Online Safety Bill - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/draft-online-safety-bill. Any questions or comments please feel free to email me. Take care and best wishes, Dr. Elinor Carmi, Postdoc Research Associate - Digital Media & Society, Department of Communication and Media, Faculty of the Humanities and Social Sciences, School of the Arts, Liverpool University, UK. https://elinorcarmi.com<https://elinorcarmi.com/> Twitter: @Elinor_Carmi

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WEBCAST JUNE 23 – Present Trends and Visions of the Future: An IGF-USA Preview Event
by Joly MacFie 16 Jun '21

16 Jun '21

They did this <https://isoc.live/12441/> last year too. A great data-driven 'State of the Net' presentation, at least USA-wise, from Lee Rainie. The actual IGF-USA takes place July 14-15, registration is open <https://bit.ly/3guhBPf> (free). ISOC Live posted: "On Wednesday June 23 2021 at 3:30-5:30pm EDT (19:30-21:30 UTC) the Internet Governance Forum USA will hold 'Present Trends and Visions of the Future: An IGF-USA Preview Event'. To understand what our increasingly tech-driven future might look like in 2025" [image: Livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/igf-usa-2021-preview>On *Wednesday June 23 2021* at *3:30-5:30pm EDT* (19:30-21:30 UTC) the *Internet Governance Forum USA <https://www.igfusa.us/>* will hold '*Present Trends and Visions of the Future: An IGF-USA Preview Event <https://bit.ly/3iGEr7G>*'. To understand what our increasingly tech-driven future might look like in 2025, *Pew <https://www.pewresearch.org/>* and Elon University’s* Imagining the Internet Center <https://www.imaginingtheinternet.org>* canvassed experts in technology, communications and social change. This IGF-USA Preview Event will help set the scene for the IGF-USA 2021, by featuring the results from the surveys carried out over the past year. *SPEAKERS* *Lee Rainie*, Director of Internet and Technology Research, Pew Research Center *Melinda Clem*, co-chair, IGF-USA *Dustin Loup*, co-chair, IGF-USA *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/igf-usa-2021-preview <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/igf-usa-2021-preview>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3iGEr7G <https://bit.ly/3iGEr7G>* *TWITTER #igfusa <http://bit.ly/2KeJbyH> #igfusa2021 <http://bit.ly/IGFUSA2021> @pewresearch @ImagineInternet @lrainie* *@ClemStrategy @DustinRLoup* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/InternetGovernanceForumUSA/ <https://www.facebook.com/InternetGovernanceForumUSA/>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/igf-usa-2021-preview <https://archive.org/details/igf-usa-2021-preview>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14172/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Re: [Air-L] Typologies of robots
by Neal Thomas 15 Jun '21

15 Jun '21

Hello Christian -- you might get something out of the edited volume (ed. Zizi Papacharissi) /A Networked Self and Human Augmentics, Artificial Intelligence, Sentience:/ https://www.routledge.com/A-Networked-Self-and-Human-Augmentics-Artificial-… To my recollection there's no specific typology produced, but you may be able to derive or develop one from the perspectives contained within. Neal ___________ Neal Thomas (he/him) CAS Instructor | Dept. of Communication Studies Laurier University | Waterloo, ON Canada Out in 2018 with Routledge: Becoming-Social in a Networked Age Twitter: @lathemason

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Fast Capitalism - CFP - Online Extremism and the Insurrection of 2021
by Arditi, David M 15 Jun '21

15 Jun '21

Colleagues, Fast Capitalism has a Call For Papers<https://fastcapitalism.journal.library.uta.edu/index.php/fastcapitalism/ann…> titled "Online Extremism and the Insurrection of 2021." Fast Capitalism is seeking critical essays for possible inclusion in a special section of an upcoming 2021 issue about the online right-wing extremism. Our goal is to gather both scholarly essays and political commentaries to present critical analyses of the growing numbers of white supremacists and how they have organized their disruptive political networks online. Further details below. Please let me know if you have any questions and please circulate to your networks. Thank you, David Dr. David Arditi Associate Professor of Sociology Director of the Center for Theory University of Texas at Arlington Author of Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians and Power in Society<https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783030445867> CFP: Fast Capitalism is seeking critical essays for possible inclusion in a special section of an upcoming 2021 issue about the online right-wing extremism. Our goal is to gather both scholarly essays and political commentaries to present critical analyses of the growing numbers of white supremacists and how they have organized their disruptive political networks online. When right-wing extremists stormed the Capitol of the United States on January 6, 2021, these proliferating white supremacist groups, who strongly supported then-President Donald Trump were out on full display. While the Ku Klux Klan, skinhead groups, and other earlier right-wing extremists often struggled to find mainstream acceptability, the Trump presidency coyly maintained "there were good people" all across the ideological spectrum in America. This positive attitude toward right-wing extremism changed with the virtual spaces that the online ecosystem that connected such groups to foment insurrection. Online messaging boards from Reddit to 4chan and 8chan created a place where right-wing extremists can meet and share ideas quite openly. From these message sites, memes and video content have proliferated across many other social media websites as well as hard-right news sites, such as Breitbart and One America News Network. These propaganda messages have swamped major segments of the Internet as people who historically do not follow the news or world events have found their best-pitched memes amusing enough for them and others to post, which then have spread like wildfire. January 6, 2021 was the culmination of years of steady expansion of right-wing extremism from 1990s militia movements to the 2010 Tea Party movement. With a favorable leader in the White House, white supremacists began endorsing Republican politicians who went from dog-whistle politics to endorsing racist ideas. When Trump refused to denounce white supremacists at the Unite the Rite Rally in Charlottesville, VA in August, 2017, it released the floodgates for these movements as a sign that his administration openly accepted these extremists as his supporters. We are interested in essays that address this topic in the following areas: * Platforms (ex. 8chan, 4chan, Reddit, Parler etc.) * Social media policies and regulation * Capitalism and the spread of new hate groups * White Supremacy * Misogyny * January 6 and the use of digital media * Surveillance and tracking the insurrectionists * Countervailing centrist and/or left-wing anti-extremist political groups Please review the Author Guidelines<https://fastcapitalism.journal.library.uta.edu/index.php/fastcapitalism/abo…> and submit your articles through the online system. If you have any questions, please contact David Arditi, Editor, darditi(a)uta.edu<mailto:darditi@uta.edu>. Submissions are due by June 7, but feel free to reach out if you need more time.

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Extended! Submit a Proposal for RNC VII through Sunday, June 20
by Michele A. L. Villagran 15 Jun '21

15 Jun '21

There’s still time! Share your knowledge and expertise with your colleagues at REFORMA’s Virtual National Conference <https://www.reformaconference.org/>! Our call for proposals under the theme “Somos el cambio / We are the change” has been extended until June 20. Has your work inspired change? If yes, submit your proposal via: https://www.reformaconference.org/proposals We are accepting proposals and programs written/presented in English and/or Spanish, under the following program tracks: - Collections & Resources - Deep Diversity & Intersectionality - Leadership & Management - Library & Information Studies - Programs & Services - Technology & Innovation Submit your proposal through Sunday, June 20. https://www.reformaconference.org/proposals. ------------------------------ ¡Extendido! Envíe su ponencia para RNC VII antes del domingo 20 de junio ¡Todavía hay tiempo! ¡Comparta sus conocimientos y experiencia con sus colegas en la Conferencia Virtual de REFORMA <https://www.reformaconference.org/>! Nuestra convocatoria de ponencias bajo el tema “Somos el cambio / We are the change” se ha extendido hasta el 20 de junio. ¿Tu trabajo ha inspirado el cambio? ¡Si es así, envíe tu ponencia a través de: https://www.reformaconference.org/convocatoria-de-propuestas Estamos aceptando ponencias y presentaciones en inglés y en español. Las ponencias deben reflejar el tema de la conferencia Somos el cambio / We are the change y deben enfocarse en uno de los siguientes temas: - Colecciones y recursos - Diversidad e interseccionalidades - Liderazgo y administración - Bibliotecología y ciencias de la información - Programas y servicios - Tecnología e innovación La fecha límite para enviar tu propuesta de ponencia es el domingo 20 de junio. https://www.reformaconference.org/convocatoria-de-propuestas *Dr. Michele A. L. Villagran *[image: A button with "Hear my name" text for name playback in email signature] <https://www.name-coach.com/michele-villagran> Assistant Professor, School of Information San José State University http://ischool.sjsu.edu michele.villagran(a)sjsu.edu 626-703-1903 faculty profile <https://ischoolapps.sjsu.edu/facultypages/view.php?fac=villagranm> | pronouns: she/her/hers <https://www.mypronouns.org/she-her> [image: SJSU School of Information]

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Call for Papers, International Conference “Criticism and circumvention of control and surveillance on the Internet”
by Francesca Musiani 15 Jun '21

15 Jun '21

Dear colleagues, I hope you are well. Please find below, and at this URL https://www.resistic.fr/index.php/2021/06/02/call-for-papers-international-…, a Call for Papers for the final symposium of the ResisTIC project, to be held March 31 and April 1, 2022 in Paris. The deadline for abstract submission is September 1, 2021. We are looking forward to your submissions! All best Francesca for the ResisTIC team -------- *Call for Papers * *International Conference “Criticism and circumvention of control and surveillance on the Internet”* The team of the ResisTIC project (“The Net Resisters: Criticizing and escaping digital coercion in Russia”, funded by the French National Agency for Research-ANR / resistic.fr), releases a call for papers for the international conference “Criticism and circumvention of control and surveillance on the Internet”. Selected contributions will address the resistance and adaptation strategies that Internet users deploy to counter new national and international web regulations, the social practices and techniques for circumventing digital constraints, and the reconfigurations of politics as they are challenged by contemporary information and communication technologies. Deadline for abstract submission: September 1, 2021. In recent years, digital freedoms and their evolutions have enjoyed substantial attention, both in authoritarian or “illiberal” contexts and in liberal democracies. In several countries, tensions are growing as on one hand, Internet users aspire to enjoy digital freedoms relating to freedom of expression and association, and on the other hand, States and other actors develop national Internet framing policies. These are officially justified by reasons of digital networking security, by commercial strategies of private companies, by arguments of modernization of state apparatuses and by claims of autonomy and independence of national Internet, most often labeled as “digital sovereignty”. Internet users face potentially paradoxical situations such as the development of the web (and the explosion of online content), on the one hand, and on the other, the strengthening of power balances that are increasingly unfavorable to public freedoms. In this context, the conference focuses on Internet users’ resistance and adaptation strategies to new national and international, public and private, regulations. Indeed, geographical and digital territories worldwide take shape as “laboratories” of practices and techniques of digital resistance, which are circulated via online interpersonal exchanges, but also by means of training sessions, conferences, forums. These sharing practices and circulations are particularly active at the time of conflicts and uprisings (as many works exploring the Arab revolutions, or conflicts in Belarus, Lebanon, Hong Kong, or Egypt, have demonstrated). This conference has the ambition to contribute, examining different cases, countries and regions, to a reflection on the reconfigurations of politics as they are challenged by contemporary information and communication technologies. This conference aims to showcase and discuss contributions focused on the following issues: - Analyses, based on case studies, of the nature of online repression and constraint strategies. These involve a whole range of actors and practices, that originate in institutions but also in private and extrajudicial dynamics aimed at maintaining order and justice (e.g. vigilantism). - The arts of resistance and circumvention developed by web professionals (hackers, service providers, engineers, experts, etc.) faced with the new legal and technical regulations on the Internet. Contributions in this area will allow us to examine technical innovations and peculiar uses of the Internet and its material infrastructures that make it possible to bypass or fight against institutional constraints. - Practices and techniques deployed to counter repression, in particular the appropriation of circumvention tools, their use and their promotion by Internet users (journalists, publishers, digital entrepreneurs, activists, citizens, etc.). We will be particularly interested in the sites where knowledge about these techniques and tools is shared and transmitted: online groups, training courses, primers and handbooks, hackathon-type events or conferences. The aim here is to analyze how these actors appropriate circumvention devices and techniques on the Internet, as compromises that make it possible to resist constraints while remaining present and active in the public space. - The uses of law in digital arenas, both in terms of how law is spoken about and represented, and the legal struggles in the field of digital freedoms. Contributions will, on the one hand, be able to address the problem of conceiving new legal rules aimed at strengthening the so-called “digital sovereignty” of the State, and, on the other hand, they could describe the hardships that people have to face within particular legal systems when they face legal action for their online activities, or in turn, initiate lawsuits against the state. Contributions may also address the cases of misuse or creative use of digital laws (e.g., creative exploitation of legal “vacuums” and other examples of dynamic relationships between code and law). - Strategies for “escaping through exile” new forms of online coercion. Contributions will focus on the strategies of Internet and web professionals (hackers, technical staff of NGOs and opposition parties) and of other actors in the public space (journalists, publishers, activists, etc.) who choose to leave their country to develop digital practices from abroad. Contributions may also focus on the migration of Internet infrastructures (e.g., relocation of servers). This conference is grounded in a multidisciplinary perspective (sociology, science studies, political science, geography, anthropology, law) and encourages the presentation of empirical approaches and innovative and hybrid methodologies. Key dates Until September 1, 2021: Proposal submissions in French or English, to be deposited on the website : https://resistic.sciencesconf.org/user/submissions, including a title, a summary of approximately 500 words, 5 to 10 keywords, key bibliographic references, surname and first name of the author(s), their affiliation, email, and address of the home institution (info : resistic(a)sciencesconf.org ) September 30, 2021: Date of notification of acceptance or refusal of communications Until February 15, 2022: Submission of complete articles (5000 to 8000 words) March 31 and April 1, 2022: International conference in Paris Organizing committee : The ResisTIC project team Olga Bronnikova (University Grenoble Alpes, ICLEA4/CESC) Françoise Daucé (School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, EHESS) Ksenia Ermoshina (Centre for Internet and Society, CNRS) Valery Kossov (University Grenoble Alpes, ICLEA4/CESC) Benjamin Loveluck (i3-SES, Telecom Paris, IP Paris) Francesca Musiani (Centre for Internet and Society, CNRS) Bella Ostromooukhova (Eur’Orbem, Sorbonne Université) Perrine Poupin (Eur’Orbem, Sorbonne Université) Anna Zaytseva (University Toulouse Jean Jaurès, LLA Creatis) Scientific committee Mahsa Alimardani (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Séverine Arsène (SciencesPo Medialab and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China) Gabriele Balbi (Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland) Luca Belli (FGV Law School, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Stanislav Budnitsky (Indiana University-Bloomington, United States) Polina Kolozaridi (Higher School of Economics Moscow, Russian Federation) Marcus Michaelsen (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Félix Tréguer (CERI, SciencesPo, France) References Deibert, R. J. (2013), Black Code. Surveillance, Privacy, and the Dark Side of the Internet (expanded ed.). Toronto: Signal Friedewald, M., Burgess, J. P., Čas, J., Bellanova, R., & Peissl, W. (dir.) (2017), Surveillance, Privacy and Security. Citizens Perspectives, London and New York: Routledge Isin, E. F., & Ruppert, E. (2015), Being Digital Citizens, London and New York: Rowman & Littlefield Kohl, U. (dir.) (2017), The Net and the Nation State. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Internet Governance, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press Liang, F., Das, V., Kostyuk, N., & Hussain, M. M. (2018), “Constructing a data‐driven society: China’s social credit system as a state surveillance infrastructure”, Policy & Internet 10(4), p. 415-453 Milan, S., 2013, Social Movements and Their Technologies: Wiring Social Change, Londres, Palgrave Macmillan Mueller, M. (2017), Will the Internet Fragment? Sovereignty, Globalization, and Cyberspace, Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity Press Soldatov, A., & Borogan, I. (2015), The Red Web. The Kremlin’s Wars on the Internet, New York: PublicAffairs Tesquet, O. (2020), À la trace. Enquête sur les nouveaux territoires de la surveillance, Paris: Premier Parallèle Tufekci, Z. (2017), Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest, New Haven, Yale University Press -- 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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Free Web-based Software for the Remainder of 2021 & Two New Python Toolkits
by Stuart Shulman 15 Jun '21

15 Jun '21

Academics on this list can now get free access to DiscoverText for the remainder of 2021. All that is required is that you take a 15- or 30-minute free training session via the web and we will sponsor your work. Whether you are working alone, in a group, or offering a module in a course, we will fully support you, your team, or your class. To book a free training session: https://calendly.com/discovertext To learn more about the platform: https://vimeo.com/showcase/5553857 If you have recently been granted access to academic Twitter data and prefer to work in Python, we have released two toolkits for that purpose: https://github.com/texifter The first is a real time or historical Twitter collector. The second, newly released in June 2021, is the alpha version of our "Trust Defender" which is a collection of scripts used to train and run a classifier to classify Twitter users as potential bots. ~Stu

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PhD positions in Digital Sociology
by Simon Lindgren 15 Jun '21

15 Jun '21

DIGSUM's Digital Sociology group (https://www.umu.se/en/department-of-sociology/research/research-areas/digit… <https://www.umu.se/en/department-of-sociology/research/research-areas/digit…>) at Umeå University, Sweden, is looking for new PhD candidates. The positions are fully funded and salaried for four years. The deadline for applications is 28 June 2021. The positions: > 1. PhD position in Digital Sociology focusing on internet, social media, politics and civil society > > 2. PhD position in Digital Sociology focusing on political discourses around AI All info about these positions is at https://www.digsum.org/digsum-feed/phd-positions-in-digital-sociology <https://www.digsum.org/digsum-feed/phd-positions-in-digital-sociology> Please let us know if you have any questions! Simon --- Simon Lindgren – Professor of Sociology Director of DIGSUM – Centre for Digital Social Research Umeå University digsum.org <http://digsum.org/> simonlindgren.com <http://simonlindgren.com/>

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