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Embauche de chargées, chargés de cours / Hiring part-time faculty 2021-2022
by Evan Light 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

Bonjour tout le monde, hi everybody, Le programme de Communications au Collège Glendon, Université York est à la recherche de plusieurs chargées, chargés de cours pour nous joindre pendant l’année scolaire 2021-2022. Les cours d’automne seront en-ligne tandis que nous avons des éspoirs d'un session d’hiver en personne. * * *Le date limite pour postuler votre candidature est le 5 mai 2021. Email: coms(a)glendon.yorku.ca* The Communications Program at York University’s Glendon College is looking for a number of course directors to join us for the 2021-2022 year. The Fall session will be conducted online while we hope to be able to conduct the Winter term in-person. * * *The deadline to apply is 5 May 2021. Email : coms(a)glendon.yorku.ca* *Session d’automne / Fall Term * COMS 1100 EN – Methods in Communcation Research COMS 1100 FR - Methodes de recherche en communications COMS 2010 FR - Le pouvoir des pixels : jeux et communications COMS 2200 EN - Computer tools and applications for communication COMS 3202 EN - The Hitchhiker?s Guide to Technoculture: Digital Discourse and Design COMS 3203 EN - Practices in Intercultural Communications COMS 3203 FR - Enjeux en communication interculturelle COMS 3208 FR - La theorie peut-elle sauver la planete? Idees emergentes en communications 1 COMS 4208 FR - Rever aux moutons electriques : pratiques emergentes en communications 1 *Session autonme/hiver / Year-long Term * COMS 1910 FR - Introduction aux etudes en communication *Session d’hiver / Winter Term* COMS 2000 EN - Social Media, Marketing and Advertising COMS 2000 FR - Les medias sociaux, la publicite et le marketing COMS 2100 EN - Beyond Words: Communications, Languages and Media COMS 2100 FR - Au-dela des mots: communications, langages et medias COMS 2500 EN - Creating and Promoting Web Content COMS 3201 FR - A travers les frontieres : communications transnationales COMS 3209 EN - The Production of the World Is the Message: Emergent Ideas in Communications 2 COMS 3209 FR - La production du monde est le message : idees emergentes en communications 2 COMS 4202 BI - Boite a outils pour les communications d?aujourd?hui : Advanced Communications Research Methods *(Bilingual Course)* COMS 4209 EN - Another End of The World is Possible: Emergent Practices in Communications 2 COMS 4209 FR - Une autre fin du monde est possible : pratiques emergentes en communications 2 *N**otre programme / Our program* https://www.glendon.yorku.ca/communications/fr/ https://www.glendon.yorku.ca/communications/ *Les affiches York / York postings* https://cupejobs.uit.yorku.ca/ Faites-moi signe par courriel si vous avez des questions. Please email me directly if you have any questions. elight(a)glendon.yorku.ca <mailto:elight@glendon.yorku.ca> -- -- Evan Light, PhD Assistant Professor - Professeur adjoint Program coordinator - coordinateur du programme Communications program - Programme de communications Glendon College, York University - Collège universitaire Glendon, Université York 2275 Bayview Ave. Toronto ON, Canada M4N 3M6 elight(a)glendon.yorku.ca +1 416.736.2100 ext: 88596 Border Probes https://borderprobes.glendon.yorku.ca Algorithmic Media Observatory http://amo-oma.ca --- Secure contact: PGP: 5BD649CF

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two podcast episodes about disinformation and conspiracy theories
by Paul Levinson 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5THe8mXxtuyWn4IRCI0onF?si=MvzSU9CTR8G_8OWL… and https://open.spotify.com/episode/5A0cijB3YhKvAPt9JM4RN8?si=6SdQ1qL4TISFm8YO… -PL

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CIRN Virtual Conference Call 2021
by Colin Rhinesmith 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

Dear colleagues, please see the following announcement for this year's virtual Community Informatics Research network (CIRN) Conference. Communities, Technology, and This Moment 2021 Virtual Conference | 8 - 12 November 2021 https://sites.google.com/view/cirn2021/ <https://sites.google.com/view/cirn2021/> Call for Papers is now Open. Ends 30 June Please see the website for more information on categories of papers refereeing process, conference committee, costs, conference publication and The Journal of Community Informatics, and how to submit an abstract. The theme of the 2021 conference, “Communities, Technology, and This Moment” aims to bring together the rich knowledge, experience, and practice of Community Informatics, Community Archives, and Development Informatics with a focus on data justice, digital equity, and community informatics response to this moment in history. The 2021 CIRN conference will provide a virtual space to explore how researchers and practitioners ethically collect information, including what happens when community information is intentionally left uncollected, and how information systems can be designed in harmony with communities. This year the CIRN conference will be online, and we propose a series of virtual events consisting of keynotes, presentations, and discussions. We hope that this virtual event covers a wide range of themes that reflect the richness and diversity of the fields of Community Informatics, Community Archives, and Development Informatics. #virtualCIRN. As an outcome, there will be conference proceedings, and selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Community Informatics in 2022. We also intend, as soon as it is possible to meet physically, to organise a follow up event in Prato Italy at the Monash University Centre. We call for contributions for the following themes, that could be individual or multiple virtual sessions, depending on the response. Sessions will be offered at a range of times in support of participants from different time zones. Themes The conflict or tensions between the individual and collective use of ICT and the implications for design and security issues. What are individual and community rights, responsibilities, and responses to the age of data breaches, manipulation, and social, health, environmental and other crises? Who is left behind from the decision-making processes related to ICTs and information practices and uses? Data justice and digital equity in the age of COVID. What have the past two years (or more) shown us? How can communities have influence upon policy, design, and practice; What will remain of privacy and work-life balance after the last two years of “smart” working? How can we ensure the rights of the digital workforce? How does the pandemic affect different communities differently? Which existent social divisions might be intensified by measures such as lock-downs and social distancing? How can community informatics support people not only to survive but to live and thrive in a time full of uncertainties? Action, agency and technology: Participatory design at this time. The (new/emerging) relationship between face-to-face and action at a (mediated) distance. Has the virtual replaced face-to-face and for what? Has much of our existence in fact become centered around virtual transactions? What has been strengthened? What has been weakened? What happens when people are forced to interact through particular platforms, and the effects on unimpeded communication? What about surveillance? The future of hybrid interactions where some are online, some in person. What are the advantages/disadvantages to hybrid setups, who is marginalized, who is enabled or disabled? Religion, faith, belief. What is the place of religion, faith and belief in the current digital area in the life of communities? How do we deal with what can be materially and socially damaging beliefs, fake news, conspiracy theories and so on? Environmental informatics. Significant environmental actions and decisions are now made at different levels through generating environmental and ecological data and this continues in the COVID-19 era. This is particularly important in the international development context, but in developing countries as well What is the relationship with the community informatics agenda? Can there be a community informatics response to this moment in history? Is it possible to even think theoretically about this moment? Have all the previous paradigms fallen apart? What has been the Community Informatics response to date?' Sponsors: Monash University and Simmons University. — Colin Rhinesmith (pronouns: he/him) Associate Professor and Director Community Informatics Lab School of Library and Information Science Simmons University https://crhinesmith.com Senior Faculty Research Fellow Benton Institute for Broadband & Society https://www.benton.org Editor-In-Chief The Journal of Community Informatics https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/JoCI/index

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Data Justice Conference, 20-21 May
by Lina Dencik 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

Civic Participation in the Datafied Society Date: 20-21 May, 2021 Location: Online Host: Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University, UK We are happy to announce the final programme of the 2nd Data Justice Conference on Civic Participation in the Datafied Society, hosted by the Data Justice Lab at Cardiff University. The two-day online event will include live sessions, pre-recorded sessions, paper presentations as well as workshops, book launches, a cultural event, and an online social space. Speakers include: Carly Kind (Ada Lovelace Institute), Mark Andrejevic (Monash University, Australia), Nanjira Sambuli (Researcher and Policy Analyst), Natalie Fenton (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK), Rashida Richardson (Rutgers University, US) and Tawana Petty (Data for Black Lives). The conference is free but registration is required. Registration deadline is 10 May! You can find all information on the conference website: https://datajusticelab.org/data-justice-2021/<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdatajusti…> Or download the full conference programme here: https://datajusticelab.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/DataJustice2021_Progr…<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdatajusti…> We hope to see you in May, Data Justice Lab

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Wi-DroIT 2021
by Francesco Betti Sorbelli 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] CALL FOR PAPERS Wi-DroIT 2021 – 3rd International Workshop on Wireless Sensors and Drones in Internet of Things July 14–16, 2021 – Virtual Event co-located with DCOSS 2021 Website: https://widroit2021.github.io Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=widroit2021 Due to the evolution of the health pandemic, the event will be held fully on-line. This will not impact the publication of the DCOSS 2021 proceedings and accepted papers will be included in the IEEE Xplore Proceedings. The virtual program will include live sessions of invited speakers and author presentations, possibly supplemented by online material such as the papers, presentation slides and videos. Aims and Scope Recently, the rapid development of Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, has highlighted a plethora of emergent applications such as infrastructure inspection and surveillance, smart agriculture, seek and rescue, parcel delivery, communications, and post-disaster recovery. In all these applications, UAVs may coexist with ground Internet of Things (IoT) devices. For example, UAVs autonomously perform remote sensing relaying the collected data by the sensors. Moreover, single or multiple UAVs can cooperatively collaborate providing services that require efficient protocols where multiple objectives and constraints should be accounted for. For this workshop, we seek papers that combine the design of algorithms and testbed implementations to develop the theoretical foundations for UAVs as well as the synergies with IoT devices. The numerous emergent applications raised by IoT may require an interdisciplinary approach, involving techniques from algorithm foundations and different areas, such as computer networks, artificial intelligence, concurrent, parallel and distributed computing, security, digital signal, image and sound processing. Topics of Interest - Autonomous sensing via UAVs - Topology monitoring with UAVs - Remote sensing networks via UAVs - Communication protocols of UAVs over IoT - Modeling and analysis of UAVs over IoT - Precision agriculture and UAVs - Crops monitoring in agriculture - Bugs monitoring in agriculture - UAVs for environmental monitoring - Autopilot and UAS autonomy - UAVs path planning and scheduling - Parcel delivery using UAVs - Cellular networks and UAVs - Constrained and multi-objectives problems - Sensors localization with UAVs - UAVs tracking techniques - Cooperative control of multiple UAVs - Cyber-security communications and UAVs - Optimal UAV deployment strategies - Test-beds and experimental results for UAVs - Single UAV applications - Multi-UAV applications - Energy-efficient UAV communications - Machine learning for UAV communications Important dates - Abstract Submission: May 14, 2021 - Paper Submission: May 21, 2021 - Acceptance Notification: June 11, 2021 - Final manuscript, camera ready: June 18, 2021 Submission Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research on distributed sensor systems related to Wi-DroIT topics of interest. Please use the US letter size (8.5 x 11 in) standard IEEE conference LaTeX format or Microsoft Word template available on the link below: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html All submissions should be written in English and submitted as a full paper. Full papers should have a maximum of eight (8) printed pages including figures and references. Full papers are expected to describe fully developed ideas with a thorough evaluation. Note that Wi-DroIT does not follow the double-blind review policy. The names and affiliations of all the authors must be present in the submitted manuscript. -- Francesco Betti Sorbelli -- Francesco Betti Sorbelli

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2 post-doc and 1 PhD position in the study of digital technologies, DNA and evidence (ERC project)
by Mareile Kaufmann 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

For two projects researching the intersection of digital technologies, DNA, evidence and bodies, the University of Oslo is hiring a doctoral and two post-doctoral candidates to build a research team for the coming 3-4 years. The projects start in fall 2021 and are funded by the European Research Council and the Norwegian Research Council. Research will be conducted in English. Both projects will combine approaches from Science, Technology and Society Studies, (Digital) Humanities and Criminology. https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/205212/postdoctoral-fellow-i… https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/205217/postdoctoral-fellow-i… https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/205228/doctoral-research-fel… For questions, contact the project leader Mareile Kaufmann: https://www.jus.uio.no/ikrs/english/people/aca/mareilek/index.html

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Call for Papers: AI & Extreme Speech Workshop LMU Munich 26-27 July 2021
by sahana udupa 29 Apr '21

29 Apr '21

Dear all Apologies for cross-posting. *** *Call for papers**International Counterathon Workshop**AI, Extreme Speech and Disinformation: Global Challenges and the Way Ahead* 26-27 July 2021 Venue: Centre for Advanced Studies, LMU Munich *Abstract deadline: 20 May 2021* *AI4Dignity,* the European Research Council (ERC) funded project, is hosting a two-day *Counterathon *workshop at LMU Munich, to develop global perspectives around AI and online content moderation. The workshop will create a collaborative coding space where fact checkers from selected countries around the world will enter into a facilitated dialogue with AI developers and academic experts to improve machine learning models to flag and label online extreme speech. The event will also feature thematic panels and public plenaries. Confirmed speakers include Hossein Deerakshan (LSE), Joan Donovan (Harvard), Bharat Ganesh (Groningen), Kiran Garimella (MIT), Duncan Omanga (SSRC), Jonathan Corpus Ong (UMass), Pablo Ortellado (Uni of São Paolo), and Cristina Tardeguilla (Agência Lupa). We are inviting submission of abstracts in these thematic areas: - Policy frameworks for AI and online content moderation in the EU/North America/the ‘global Souths’ - Critical studies of the promise and limits of AI systems for online extreme speech moderation - Ethnographic approaches to AI assisted efforts against hate and disinformation Please send your abstracts (300 words) to ai4dignity(a)ethnologie.lmu.de before 20 May 2021. Selected participants will be notified by 25 May 2021. Abstracts should contain a clear outline of the argument, theoretical framework, methodology, and a brief note on how your research is connected to one or more of the three thematic areas. Please also include 3-5 keywords that describe your work, and a short bio (100 words, stating affiliation). The workshop is planned as a hybrid event but will go fully online based on the pandemic situation. Travel and accommodation costs will be covered for the physical event. Selected presentations will be invited to contribute to an edited collection. If you have any questions, please contact Sahana Udupa (Principal Investigator) at ai4dignity(a)ethnologie.lmu.de More on the workshop: https://www.ai4dignity.gwi.uni-muenchen.de and https://www.fordigitaldignity.com/international-counterathon-workshop/ *** Sahana Udupa Professor of Media Anthropology LMU Munich Latest: Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech <https://iupress.org/9780253059253/digital-hate/> Access publications here <https://lmu-munich.academia.edu/SahanaUdupa>

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WEBCAST TODAY / AUJOURD'HUI – Central Africa Peering Forum 2021 / le Forum sur le Peering en Afrique Centrale
by Joly MacFie 29 Apr '21

29 Apr '21

This is under way, but with just two panelists Alan Aina and Eddy Kayihura . Quality not quantity! Ceci est en cours, mais avec seulement deux panélistes Alan Aina et Eddy Kayihura. Qualité, pas quantité! ISOC Live posted: "On Thursday 29 April 2021, at 13:00-15:00 UTC, for the second year in a row, the Central Africa Peering Forum (CAPF) will bring together local, regional, and global peering ecosystems experts. Organized by the peering community in Central Africa and supp" [image: LIVESTREAM (English)] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/capf21>On *Thursday 29 April 2021*, at *13:00-15:00 UTC*, for the second year in a row, the *Central Africa Peering Forum <https://www.internetsociety.org/events/central-africa-peering-forum/capf-20…>* (CAPF) will bring together local, regional, and global peering ecosystems experts. Organized by the peering community in Central Africa and supported by the *Internet Society <https://www.internetsociety.org/>*, the event will address data protection, the creation and distribution of Internet content, online services, and how to create and maintain technical communities. The event will culminate in concrete recommendations for a more stable and secure Internet infrastructure in Central Africa. This year, the virtual event will be part of the *International Exhibition on Information Technology and Innovation <https://www.osiane.cg/>* (OSIANE 2021) organized by the nongovernmental organization *PRATIC* (Promotion, Reflection and Analysis on Information and Communication Technologies). [image: LIVESTREAM (Francais)] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/fpac21>Le *jeudi 29 avril 2021*, de *13h00 à 15h00 UTC*, pour la deuxième année consécutive, le *Forum sur le Peering en Afrique Centrale <https://www.internetsociety.org/fr/events/central-africa-peering-forum/capf…>* (FPAC), en Anglais, Central Africa Peering Forum (CAPF) réunira des experts de l’écosystème du Peering de la sous-région et d’ailleurs. Organisé par la communauté du Peering en Afrique centrale, avec l’appui de l’*Internet Society <https://www.internetsociety.org/>*, l’évènement portera sur la protection des données, la création et la distribution de contenu Internet et comment créer et maintenir des communautés techniques. L’événement aboutira à des recommandations concrètes pour une infrastructure Internet plus stable et plus sécurisée en Afrique centrale. Cette année, l’événement virtuel se tiendra dans le cadre du *Salon international des technologies de l’information et de l’innovation <https://www.osiane.cg/>* (OSIANE 2021) organisé par l’organisation non gouvernementale (ONG) *PRATIC* (Promotion, Réflexion et Analyse sur les Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication). *SPEAKERS / CONFÉRENCIERS* *Alain Aina*, WACREN *Gael Hernandez*, Packet Clearing House (PCH) *Eddy Kayihura*, African Network Information Centre (AFRINIC) *Thys Kazad*, Facebook *Ghislain Nkeramugaba*, Internet Society *MODERATORS / MODERATEURS* *Ghislain Nkeramugaba*, Internet Society *Olivier Leloustre*, Cameroon Internet Exchange Point (CAMIX) *LIVESTREAM (ENGLISH)* *http://livestream.com/internetsociety/capf21 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/capf21>* *LIVESTREAM (FRANÇAIS)* *http://livestream.com/internetsociety/fpac21 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/fpac21>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM* *https://bit.ly/32VgNey <https://bit.ly/32VgNey>* (EN/FR) *TWITTER #CAPF21 <https://bit.ly/2R3uHZx> #FPAC21 #OSIANE21 #IXP @65db9ffd8997492 @elgaelo @ekayihura Thys Kazad @nk_ghislain @leloustre* *SIMULCASTS* *https://twitter.com/ISOC_Live/ <https://twitter.com/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live <https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live>* *https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/live <https://www.facebook.com/ISOCAfrica/live>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/capf21 <https://archive.org/details/capf21>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/13980/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Veronica Barassi EVENT RECORDING: 'How Tech Companies are Profiling Us from before Birth' | LSE Digital Ethnography Collective
by Glatt,ZA (pgr) 29 Apr '21

29 Apr '21

Hi all! Thanks to those of you who attended yesterday’s LSE Digital Ethnography Collective book event, we had a great and generative conversation! For those of you who wanted to but were unable to attend, the recording is now available to watch here: https://youtu.be/6HIY5DZ3Lxs The event was about Professor Veronica Barassi’s new book ‘Child Data Citizen: How Tech Companies are Profiling Us from Before Birth’ (MIT Press, 2020) and her experience as an ethnographer in making sense of the datafication of family life. By looking at the human tensions and sensory experience of datafication, she reflected on the merits and challenges of ethnography and autoethnography in the understanding of our complex data environments. All the best, Zoe ________________________ Zoë Glatt www.zoeglatt.com<http://www.zoeglatt.com/> ESRC PhD Researcher in Media & Communications London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Co-Founder: LSE Digital Ethnography Collective @DigEthnogLSE<https://twitter.com/DigEthnogLSE> Graduate Student Rep 2019-2021: Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Managing Editor 2018-2020: ICA journal Communication, Culture & Critique<https://academic.oup.com/ccc/pages/About> YouTube channel<https://www.youtube.com/user/Zedstergal> | Twitter<https://twitter.com/ZoeGlatt> | LSE bio<http://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/people/phd-researchers/zoe-gl…>

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NSF Convergence Accelerator Phases I and II for the 2021 Cohort
by Stuart Shulman 29 Apr '21

29 Apr '21

I am finalizing a Letter of Intent due May 5 to be a part of the "NSF Convergence Accelerator Phases I and II for the 2021 Cohort" under the "Trust and Authenticity in Communication Systems" track. The goal of the program is to develop prototypes of "novel research platforms" that integrate tools, techniques, and educational outcomes "engendering trust and authenticity in communication systems." This proposal will be industry-led under the Broad Agency Announcement described here: https://beta.sam.gov/opp/0106e498c00246379415ed50c74e5b9a/view The Program Solicitation calls for an interdisciplinary team and I am currently recruiting up to four CO-PIs and up to four Senior Personnel to be a part of the proposal. If awarded, Phase I is $750,000 for Y1 and a total of $5,000,000 for Y2 and Y3. I will be taking meetings the remainder of the week with potential collaborators on this project. I was a part of the NSF workshop that led to this specific solicitation and I have a set of long percolating ideas related to the gamification of human annotation that will underpin the proposal, however the breadth and scope of "Convergence" projects means that the deliverables (ex., working prototypes) need to be able to cut across disciplines, tools, and all communication domains, including health, climate, news, and other areas where trustworthy and authentic information may be, for lack of a better expression, "all in a muddle" on the Internet. I have previously been through the cycle of funding from NSF (2000-2008) working with computer science, statistics, sociology and political science researchers. The deliverable was DiscoverText, now a 10+ year old annotation science platform that people seem to think is a glorified Tweet collector. In fact, the kernel of that platform was a scientific measurement instrument (inter-rater reliability in crowd source annotation) and a novel adjudication methodology (determining what the gold standard is for recorded observations as well observers themselves). In this new project, we are seeking to build a new team that can move annotation science into the forefront of convergence research and education. If this sounds like something that might be in your wheelhouse, please send me your CV and then let's have a 15-minute conversation: https://calendly.com/discovertext Thanks, ~Stu

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