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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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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 12 Jun '21

12 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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