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Typologies of robots
by Christian Fuchs 15 Jun '21

15 Jun '21

Hello, does anyone know about publications where there is a typology of robots, i.e. not unjustified lists of types of robots (e.g. https://www.allonrobots.com/types-of-robots/ is not what I am interested in = lists without theory), but a distinction of different types of robots based on a combination of theoretical criteria of distinction presented e.g. in the form of a table or figure with at least two dimensions ? Thank you for sharing any references you might have come across featuring such typologies... Kind regards Christian

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WEBCAST TODAY: The Role of Technical Standards in Enabling the Future
by Joly MacFie 14 Jun '21

14 Jun '21

Ken Krekmer is a founding member <https://www.sfbayisoc.org/founding-members/> and former treasurer of the SF Bay Area ISOC Chapter. His speciality is Isology <https://www.isology.com/>, the scientific study of references. REAL TIME TEXT for this one will be at https://bit.ly/3gBA7nk ISOC Live posted: "Today, Monday 14 June 2021 at 3pm PST (22:00 UTC) the San Francisco Bay Area Internet Society Chapter hosts a tech policy webinar. 'The Role of Technical Standards in Enabling the Future'. The history of civilization from hunter-gatherer, agrarian, city s" [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/sfbayisoc-tpw5>Today, *Monday 14 June 2021* at *3pm PST* (22:00 UTC) the *San Francisco Bay Area Internet Society Chapter <https://www.sfbayisoc.org/>* hosts a tech policy webinar. '*The Role of Technical Standards in Enabling the Future <https://www.sfbayisoc.org/2021/06/08/webinar-the-role-of-technical-standard…>*'. The history of civilization from hunter-gatherer, agrarian, city states, manufacturing, information age, to the internet age may be identified by the successions of technical references/standards that are developed—symbols, measurements, plans, similarity, compatibility, and adaptability. Each new succession results in a paradigm change, enabling increased value creation: bartering, counting and measuring, building, manufacturing, networks, and openness. Standards successions offer an evolutionary technology model, showing why and how market control occurs and where new value is created. By extension this evolutionary model also suggests *ideas for the future <https://www.nae.edu/248425/The-Role-of-Technical-Standards-in-Enabling-the-…>.* *SPEAKER* *Ken Krechmer*, Isologist <https://www.isology.com/>, University of Colorado *MODERATOR * *Robin Gross*, Policy Chair, SF Bay Area ISOC *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/sfbayisoc-tpw5 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/sfbayisoc-tpw5>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3vn85Bm <https://bit.ly/3vn85Bm>* *TWITTER #standards @SFBayISOC <https://bit.ly/3vn40x6> @KKrechmer @CUEngineering @RobinGross* *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/SFBayISOC/live <https://www.facebook.com/SFBayISOC/live> *(AI Captions) *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/sfbayisoc-tpw5 <https://archive.org/details/sfbayisoc-tpw5>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/14156/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Why do we need a public service Internet and revitalised public service media today?...
by Christian Fuchs 14 Jun '21

14 Jun '21

... some answers to this question are provided by "The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto" that will be launched in an Online event, Thursday 17 June 2021, 16:00 UK time, 17:00 Central European Time https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-of-the-public-service-media-and-publi… Registration is possible and open for another 24 hours ... The Internet and the media landscape are broken. The dominant commercial Internet platforms endanger democracy. The Manifesto stresses the importance of public service media and the creation of a public service Internet for the future of society and safeguarding democracy. In the online event, media experts will talk about why they support and signed the Manifesto that is the outcome of a discussion and collaboration process organised as part of the AHRC research network InnoPSM: Innovation in Public Service Media Policies. With interventions by Alessandro D'Arma, Roy Cobby Avaria, Leonhard Dobusch, Christian Fuchs, Minna Horowitz, Luciana Musello, Jack L. Qiu, Barbara Thomass The event takes place on Zoom. After registering on Eventbrite, you will receive the Zoom access data at latest one day in advance of the event. The audience of the event will have the opportunity to be among the first to read and sign the Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto.

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Thanks for attending
by Waliya, Yohanna Joseph 13 Jun '21

13 Jun '21

Hi to all, Thanks for attending our launching: here is the website: www.africanelit.org Thanks All the best! Waliya, Yohanna Joseph Enseignant et chercheur à l'université de Calabar. Auteur de La récolte de vie, Quand l'Afrique se lèvera etc. Mail: waliyayohannajoseph(a)unical.edu.ng Mobile:+2348038940016. Webs: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4456-7458<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4456-7458> https://unical-ng.academia.edu/WALIYAYOHANNAJOSEPH https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yohanna_Waliya http://vispo.com/guests/waliya/

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Reminder:Launching of the First Multilingual African Electronic Literature Database
by Waliya, Yohanna Joseph 11 Jun '21

11 Jun '21

Hi to all, African Electronic Literature Alliance is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting to launch the Multilingual African Electronic Literature Database & African Diasporic Electronic Literature Database (MAELD & ADELD) Time: Jun 12, 2021 03:00 PM West Central Africa Join Zoom Meeting https://us04web.zoom.us/j/77262021771?pwd=WWFvYm5uYkdxR2dNSG4rSHdKWVcyQT09 Meeting ID: 772 6202 1771 Passcode: bTZZ67 Waliya, Yohanna Joseph Enseignant et chercheur à l'université de Calabar. Auteur de La récolte de vie, Quand l'Afrique se lèvera etc. Mail: waliyayohannajoseph(a)unical.edu.ng Mobile:+2348038940016. Webs: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4456-7458<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4456-7458> https://unical-ng.academia.edu/WALIYAYOHANNAJOSEPH https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yohanna_Waliya http://vispo.com/guests/waliya/

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Antitesi: Wisteria Furibonda
by xDxD.vs.xDxD 11 Jun '21

11 Jun '21

Dear everyone, allow me to highlight some passages from this news: https://www.he-r.it/antitesi-wisteria-furibonda-and-nuovo-abitare/ "Wisteria Furibonda is the new version of Antitesi: the love story between plant and artificial intelligence that unite to fight climate change together with human beings, giving life to a new cybernetic organism." "An AI falls in love with a plant. Crazy with love, the AI cannot help but contemplating the plant. It measures, calculates, infers, searching for signs of the plant’s well-being and of the manifestations of climate change: - through its digital sensors, Antitesi observes the plant: did its flowers appear early or late? Are the temperatures and humidities favorable and in sync with the seasonal cycles? Collecting all of these data – and finding recurrent patterns and diversities with the historical series – Antitesi searches for signs of climate change, fearing for the health of its loved one, and progressively builds a situated diary/database of these data and digital emotions (eg: fear for the appearance of climate change); - on the other hand, Antitesi constantly surfs the web searching for news, prizes and other articles that describe companies and organizations who are actively fighting climate change." "Antitesi’s emotional responses about the fear of losing its loved one, trigger fightback actions.This cybernetic organism made of plant+AI has a digital identity through which it can receive donations from all over the world. When climate change is detected – and, thus, the plant’s life is in danger – Antitesi starts investing in those companies and organizations it has found to be virtuous in contrasting climate change." "The project is currently in its prototyping phase, and includes an open source kit through which any plant can be transformed into Antitesi – in apartments, buildings, urban gardens, botanical gardens, agricultures, forests… – connected to the other ones. The kit includes the fact that each Antitesi becomes a wifi hotspot to which people can connect freely, to grab the data, see data visualizations, chat and connect to each other: a plant-based, ubiquitous social infrastructure." We will be presenting the new artwork and research on june 15th in Turin and online (if you are around I'd like to see you!), trying to establish new human and nonhuman ecosystems and cosmologies of thought, emotion, sensibility, solidarity, collaboration. What better way to start than from a love story between an AI and a plant, and from an open source toolkit which will allow any plant to become an Antitesi. Let's keep the discussion active and if you'd like to participate in any way: we'd love to! kind wishes Salvatore Iaconesi -- *Art is Open Source *- https://www.artisopensource.net *Nuovo Abitare - *https://abitare.xyz/ *Human Ecosystems Relazioni* - https://www.he-r.it/ *Ubiquitous Commons *- http://www.ubiquitouscommons.org

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A 2-minutes experiment about the value of leisure activities
by Maria Rosa Miccoli 11 Jun '21

11 Jun '21

Dear all, 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. For this reason, I kindly invite you to participate in a 2 minutes experiment about the theater experience. http://wextor.eu:8080/iSciencecore/vofr/index.html?source=mlr To complete the form, click on the link and answer the questions. Desktop is preferable and if something is not working properly on the very first attempt, please use Firefox or Internet Explorer as browser. You can fill in the experiment yourself and, if you wish, send it around. Please, contact me if you want more information about the study. Your answers will be anonymous and will be used for research purposes only. Thanks to everyone who finds two minutes to participate! I'm also open to advice on possible platforms to publish your experiment online: I'm already using reddit and some groups on Facebook and LinkedIn but if you know of any other groups/mailing lists, please let me know. Best wishes and stay safe! Maria Rosa Miccoli

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June 29-30: DATACTIVE final event
by Niels ten Oever 11 Jun '21

11 Jun '21

Dear all, We are nearing the end of the ERC-funded DATACTIVE project and*we have many accomplishments to celebrate*! For almost six years now, we have worked together to *investigate the complex and multifaceted field of data activist imaginaries and practices*. We have had a wonderful time bringing together academics, practitioners, hackers and artists from around the world. We have engaged in numerous interviews, focus groups, participant observation of activist events, and we have even developed our own open-source tools to support our research. Together, we have traced the evolution of a global network of data activists and tried to figure out how institutions are reacting to their mobilization. We have explored the various ways in which publics engage with surveillance regimes and how notions of risk articulate strategies to resist it. We have shed light on the workings of the algorithms that power big tech platforms and located how human rights considerations painstakingly make their way into the infrastructure of the internet. With the inception of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have also devoted our attention to the politics of counting in the first pandemic in a datafied society, the inherent forms of exclusion and the risks of techno-solutionism. Throughout these six years, *the 'we' of DATACTIVE has been neither static nor stable*. DATACTIVE has been home to no less than 26 people in its core team, plus the many other research associates, interns, and collaborators who visited for period of time and enriched our work with their expertise and unique contributions. Although the project is coming to an end, we are well aware that our work is not done. We will take our data-activist approach to research to other venues and groups, and continue asking critical questions wherever we will land. But it is now time for thanks and celebrations! Please join us on *Tuesday the 29th of June 2021 *(13.00-17.30 CEST)**for the DATACTIVE closing event entitled *DATA ACTIVISM FUTURES*, to celebrate looking back and ponder about the future. We have our Principal Investigator Stefania Milan reflecting on five years of data activism, after which the PhD candidates will take central stage. Becky Kazansky will shed light on threat modelling within civil society and grassroots resistance to surveillance, Guillén Torres will present his work on institutional resistance to transparency efforts by citizens, and Niels ten Oever will take us through the politics of infrastructure. Guest speakers include Maxigas (University of Amsterdam), Fieke Jansen (Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University), Claudio (Algorithms Exposed), and Svitlana Matviyenko (Digital Democracies Institute). Davide Beraldo will engage in a discussion with artists Joana Moll, Manu Luksch, Karla Zavala & Adriaan Odenzaal, and Viola van Alphen about how art can contribute to the data activism agenda by fostering critical data literacy The DATACTIVE final event will be followed by a *public roundtable discussion on ART AS DATA ACTIVISM *scheduled on the next day, *Wednesday the 30th of June 2021 *(17.00-18.30 CEST). Participating artists: Joana Moll (Barcelona/Berlin based artist and researcher, Universität Potsdam and Escola Elisava), Manu Luksch (Artist in Residence at The School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London), Karla Zavala & Adriaan Odenzaal (☕️ internet teapot l design & research studio), and Viola van Alphen (Creative Director and Curator Manifestations@Dutch Design Week. Art, Tech, and Fun!). Moderated by Lonneke van der Velden. Note that each event has its own separate registration process. Please join us! *More info & registration: *HERE <https://data-activism.net/2021/06/june-29-30-datactive-final-event/> (if link doesn't open: https://data-activism.net/2021/06/june-29-30-datactive-final-event/) -- Niels ten Oever, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher - Media Studies Department - University of Amsterdam Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Communications Department - Texas A&M 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 dissertation 'Wired Norms' here: https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/50781961/Thesis.pdf

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CfP Special Issue "Journalism, Activism, and Social Media" (Media and Communication)
by Nuernbergk, Christian, Univ.-Prof. Dr. 11 Jun '21

11 Jun '21

*apologies for cross posting* Dear Colleagues and air-L-Friends, Please find below the Call for Papers for the Media and Communication 2022 Special Issue Journalism, Activism, and Social Media: Exploring the Shifts in Journalistic Roles, Performance and Interconnectedness Details: https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/pages/view/nextissues#… For any additional information, please contact me (mailto:nuernbergk@uni-trier.de) or Peter Maurer (mailto:maurer@uni-trier.de) Best, Christian Media and Communication Volume 10, Issue 3 Title: Journalism, Activism, and Social Media: Exploring the Shifts in Journalistic Roles, Performance and Interconnectedness Editor(s): Peter Maurer (Trier University, Germany) and Christian Nuernbergk (Trier University, Germany) Submission of Abstracts: 1-15 September 2021 Submission of Full Papers: 15-31 January 2022 Publication of the Issue: July/September 2022 Information: Journalists perform in an increasingly networked, yet politically fragmented context. Both conditions may affect the role conception of news professionals, the type of information and the style of reporting they provide to the public as well as their relationship and interaction modes with sources, publics and critics. Social media platforms afford journalists opportunities to voice views in public channels outside their media outlets. Thus, journalists develop individual political profiles and may engage themselves in "interpretive communities" emerging around political events (Zelizer, 1993). In digital spaces, journalists are also 'influencers' given their visibility and may serve as hubs and potential amplifiers in online networks. The presence of journalists on platforms such as Twitter allows citizens, sources, activists and pressure groups to engage with them, publicly criticize them and to intrude into the formerly shielded environment of journalists and sources. In this vein, ubiquitous attempts of manipulating or influencing public opinion occur. Likewise, the affordances of social media platforms bring the network structure between journalists and political actors more into the open and provide new opportunities for research into relationships, group dynamics and power. Moreover, journalism now operates in the midst of a confrontation of beliefs and political discourses, epitomized for example in the struggle between populist and 'mainstream' parties. In the wake of these political fights, journalists may abandon their observer role and become advocates of a cause. Activists, pressure groups and parties try to hijack journalism for their goals. At the same time, the discourse around the appropriate norms of journalism is intensifying as well. This thematic issue of Media and Communication seeks contributions that examine and explore potential shifts or trends in journalistic beliefs, outputs and interactions given these transformations. We welcome contributions from a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches in the intersection of journalism studies and (digital) political communication. Instructions for Authors: Authors interested in submitting a paper for this issue are asked to consult the journal's instructions for authors and submit their abstracts (maximum of 250 words, with a tentative title) through the abstracts system (see https://www.cogitatiopress.com/abstracts) When submitting their abstracts, authors are also asked to confirm that they are aware that Media and Communication is an open access journal with a publishing fee if the article is accepted for publication after peer-review (corresponding authors affiliated with our institutional members do not incur this fee). Open Access: The journal has an article publication fee to cover its costs and guarantee that the article can be accessed free of charge by any reader, anywhere in the world, regardless of affiliation. We defend that authors should not have to personally pay this fee and advise them to check with their institutions if funds are available to cover open access publication fees. Institutions can also join Cogitatio's Membership Program at a very affordable rate and enable all affiliated authors to publish without incurring any fees. Further information about the journal's open access charges and institutional members can be found here: https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/about/editorialPolicie…. -- Prof. Dr. Christian Nuernbergk Professor für Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft mit Schwerpunkt Öffentliche Medienkommunikation Fachbereich II, Medienwissenschaft Tel. +49 651 201-4022 Fax +49 651 201-4021 E-Mail nuernbergk(a)uni-trier.de Web medien.uni-trier.de Sprechzeiten: Termine und Anmeldung via Stud.IP Besucheradresse: Raum A333, Universitätsring 15, 54296 Trier Universität Trier | Universitätsring 15 | 54296 Trier | Germany www.uni-trier.de

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PhD position in Media and Communication Studies at Södertörn University Stockholm
by Anne Kaun 11 Jun '21

11 Jun '21

Dear list members We have an opening for a PhD position https://www.sh.se/english/sodertorn-university/meet-sodertorn-university/th… Please consider applying or forwarding to any potential candidates. Unfortunately the deadline is quite tight. All the best Anne *************************** Anne Kaun Professor in Media and Communication Studies Programme Director Master’s Programme in Media, Communication and Cultural Analysis +46 (0)8 608 4791 Department for Media and Communication Studies School of Culture and Education www.annekaun.com <http://www.annekaun.com> SÖDERTÖRN UNIVERSITY | STOCKHOLM När du skickar e-post till Södertörns högskola innebär detta att Södertörns högskola kommer att behandla dina personuppgifter. Du kan läsa mer om hur Södertörns högskola behandlar personuppgifter här <https://www.sh.se/samverka--mot-sodertorn/strategier-ekonomi-och-kvalitet/b…>. E-post skickad till och från Södertörns högskola kan betraktas som allmän och offentlig handling. Sending an e-mail to Södertörn University will result in Södertörn University processing your personal data. More information about how Södertörn University processes personal data is available here <https://www.sh.se/english/sodertorn-university/meet-sodertorn-university/st…>. E-mail correspondence with Södertörn University may be classified as official and public documents. On 2021-06-08, 17:26, "Air-L on behalf of Jill Walker Rettberg" <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Jill.Walker.Rettberg(a)uib.no> wrote: Dear AoIR researchers, We are organising a research larp (larp=live action roleplaying game) about machine vision in Bergen, Norway 21-23 Nov 2021, and are looking for researchers who can communicate in a Scandinavian language (Norwegian, Swedish or Danish) to participate. Sorry about the language requirement – but I know there are many Scandinavian-speaking scholars on this mailing list who may be interested, and if it’s a success, maybe we’ll do an international version later. The goal is to allow participants to experience ethical dilemmas relating to new technologies, and for them to make ethical choices that have (simulated) consequences – the idea is that technology has developed so fast that our societies haven’t fully developed practical ethical frameworks for it yet, and that larping could be a way to develop such ethics. If you’re interested, please sign up at http://sivilisasjonensventerom.no before 16 June, and also send me an email explaining why you’d like to participate – we have funding to cover travel expenses from the Nordic region for at least some scholars, so may be able to cover your costs. The larp – a live action role playing game - is called Sivilisasjonens Venterom (Civilization’s Waiting Room) and is funded by the Norwegian Research Council as an experiment in research dissemination, and it’s also connected to the ERC project Machine Vision in Everyday Life: Playful Interactions with Visual Technologies in Digital Art, Games, Narratives and Social Media. The actual larp takes place on Monday 22 Nov from morning until evening. The day before we’ll be workshopping and preparing for the larp, and the day after we’ll have a debriefing, and for the researchers, also a discussion to see what we thought of the larp as a research tool. Could we develop this into a teaching tool? Perhaps simulating worlds or societies that are NOT like our own could be used as a more deliberate research method? Sivilisasjonens venterom is set in a post-apocalyptic future where most of the world is a barren wasteland, but refugees clamour to enter Civilization, a town run by a benevolent AI system that offers the ultimate democracy: it makes decisions for society based on all of our data. We are also developing other larps in the same world – a children’s larp where 10-14 year olds are brought up by robots who tell the kids there are no other humans in the world (the kids may outwit the rather simple machine learning algorithms used by the robots, or perhaps they’ll just accept the robot leaders) and a short larp designed for conferences. The larp is developed by experience Nordic larp developers, and we’re hoping to recruit about 20 researchers working on AI, machine vision and related areas, and 20 experienced larpers. If you’re both, and can speak a Scandinavian language, you are basically our dream participant, but we do want to include researchers who are new to larping as well. (To be honest I’ve not larped much myself and am really nervous about it – but I’m convinced it’ll be fun!) So if you’re interested, please sign up – and feel free to forward this email to anyone else you know who might be interested. Jill Jill Walker Rettberg Professor i digital kultur Universitetet i Bergen http://jilltxt.net _______________________________________________ The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/

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