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WEBCAST TODAY: Encryption, Cloud, and the GDPR – What Is The Recipe For Survival?
by Joly MacFie 31 Mar '21

31 Mar '21

Encryption Europe are one of mISOC's partners in the Global Encryption Coalition <https://www.globalencryption.org/> - this is their third webinar of 2021. ISOC Live posted: "On Wednesday March 31 2021, at 10:00-11:00 CEST (08:00-09:00 UTC) Encryption Europe invites experts from Fair&Smart and Lybero to discuss how three crucial components will interact to protect the future of Europe: Encryption, the Cloud, and the GDPR. " On Wednesday March 31 2021, at 10:00-11:00 CEST (08:00-09:00 UTC)* Encryption Europe <https://encryptioneurope.eu/>* invites experts from* Fair&Smart <https://www.fairandsmart.com/en/>* and *Lybero <https://lybero.net/>* to discuss how three crucial components will interact to protect the future of *Europe: Encryption, the Cloud, and the GDPR* <https://encryptioneurope.eu/2021/03/01/Encryption-Europe-Webinar-Series-Mar…>. The future is not as unpredictable as we may think. We know that the future of Europe relies on our capacity to innovate and keep innovation at home. We also know that people and businesses in Europe will care about the privacy and protection of their valuable data. And that cloud providers will play a crucial role in hosting our data at scale and cost-effectively. For all these reasons, we can safely say that our data will be processed in the cloud, under the legal safeguard of the GDPR, and enforced by strong encryption without backdoors. But there will be challenges for all organizations: from a technical point of view, how to handle encryption keys? how to handle backups and restoration? Is it compatible with web applications? And from a legal point of view: will our current processes and practices compatible with GDPR? how to protect data while allowing internal and external controls? PRESENTATION *Arnaud Laprêvote*, Lybero ROUNDTABLE *Eric Bedell*, Franklin Templeton *Xavier Lefevre*, CEO - Fair&Smart *Christophe Buschmann*, Commissioner - CNPD[image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/encrypteurope3> *Arnaud Laprévote,* founder and CEO - Lybero MODERATOR *Jean-Christophe Le Toquin*, Coordinator, Encryption Europe *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/encrypteurope3 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/encrypteurope3>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8392012716 <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8392012716>* *REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/2PNSKeo <https://bit.ly/2PNSKeo>* *TWITTER #EncryptEurope @EncryptEurope #GlobalEncryption #CyberSecurity #GDPR Arnaud Laprevote @Lybero_net Eric Bedell @FTI_Global Christophe Buschmann CNPD* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/encrypteurope3 <https://archive.org/details/encrypteurope3>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/13903/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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ACM IUI 2021: Call for participation
by Axel Soto 30 Mar '21

30 Mar '21

*** ACM IUI 2021: Call for Participation *** * Virtually hosted by Texas A&M University * April 13-17, 2021 * http://iui.acm.org/2021/ * Contact: registration2021(a)iui.acm.org ## Registration deadline April 9, 2021 ## Registration link https://iui.acm.org/2021/registration.html ## ACM IUI 2021 ACM IUI 2021 is the 26th annual premier international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces. ACM IUI is where the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) communities meet, with contributions from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, and more. Our focus is on improving the interaction between humans and digital technology, by leveraging both HCI approaches and state-of-the art AI techniques from machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, knowledge representation and reasoning.

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commissioning research on media competition policy
by Jody Brannon 30 Mar '21

30 Mar '21

Hi, all, I direct a non-profit think tank, operating within the Open Markets Institute, called the Center for Journalism & Liberty; we’re part of the Knight Research Network<https://knightfoundation.org/democracy-in-the-digital-age/>. We research issues of competition policy at the intersection of four areas: platforms, privacy, journalism business models, and content integrity/quality. Last summer we commissioned scholarly work into news deserts in Iowa<https://www.journalismliberty.org/publications/what-makes-iowa-newspapers-r…> and Appalachia<https://www.journalismliberty.org/publications/local-news-and-community-res…>, and into Facebook and Google’s dominance<https://www.journalismliberty.org/publications/beggars-and-choosers-faceboo…>. Additionally a policy specialist proposed strategies<https://www.journalismliberty.org/publications/replanting-strategy-saving-l…> to ensure media independence, and Ethan Zuckerman, now of Mass-Amherst, provided a piece on digital public infrastructure<https://www.journalismliberty.org/publications/what-is-digital-public-infra…>. Take a look at this link,<https://www.journalismliberty.org/fellowships-freelance-reporters> detailing our continual need for relevant research, pitch an idea or two, and maybe spend your summer working on a significant paper that can help legitimate online news thrive. Last summer we paid between $500 and $2,000 for accepted articles (higher rates, plus support for resources are possible). Illinois professor Nikki Usher is a CJL fellow<https://www.journalismliberty.org/our-people/nikki-usher>, and she recommended I post this to this group, as we’re eager to explore cross-disciplinary solutions to the survival of the Fourth Estate online. This group may also be interested in an April 20 event taking shape called Beyond Facebook & Google: The Future of Journalism & Democracy<https://www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications/conference-after-google-a…>. Watch for a link to attend, or send me an email and I’ll do so, once the day’s agenda is completed. Hope to hear from you. Jody Jody Brannon, Ph.D. Director, Center for JOURNALISM & LIBERTY<https://journalismandliberty.org/> INDEPENDENT • VIGILANT • VITAL Linkedin<https://www.linkedin.com/in/jodybrannon/> // 301-537-5011 + via Signal Follow CJL on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/JournalismLiberty>, LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/company/center-for-journalism-and-liberty>, Medium<https://medium.com/journalismandliberty> & Twitter<https://twitter.com/cjl4news> CJL is part of the Knight Research Network<https://knightfoundation.org/democracy-in-the-digital-age/> affiliated with OPEN MARKETS INSTITUTE<https://openmarketsinstitute.org/about-us/> LIBERTY • DEMOCRACY • PROSPERITY

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April 8 & 9 “No Going Back: Global Communication and Post-Pandemic Politics”
by Bridges, Lauren 30 Mar '21

30 Mar '21

CARGC Fellows Early Career Symposium (Virtual) “No Going Back: Global Communication and Post-Pandemic Politics” April 8 & 9 | Virtual RSVP AND FIND VIDEOS HERE: https://bit.ly/cargcfellows We invite you to attend the early career symposium organized by fellows (post-graduate and doctoral) in residence at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC<https://www.asc.upenn.edu/research/research-centers/center-advanced-researc…>) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. This year’s theme, “No Going Back: Global Communication and Post Pandemic Politics”, gathers scholarship that examines the idea of post-pandemic politics through the lens of global communication. The symposium includes a mix of asynchronous and synchronous events. Asynchronous video presentations are available to registrants to watch in advance of the synchronous panels on April 8. There are 21 original research projects available on our website<https://bit.ly/cargcfellows> for attendees to engage with and give feedback prior to and during the conference days. The synchronous panels will include brief remarks from presenters, comments from a designated discussant, and live Q and A session moderated by a CARGC fellow. A live session will take place on April 9 with our keynote, “Communicating Abolition: Radical Possibilities for Post-Pandemic Futures: A Dialogue with Karma R. Chávez (University of Texas at Austin) and Jamila Hammami (CUNY Graduate Center).” For more information see: https://bit.ly/cargcfellows Follow CARGC on Twitter for updates: @AnnenbergCARGC<https://twitter.com/AnnenbergCARGC> #NoGoingBackConf #CARGC2021

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Social Media: A Critical Introduction - third edition
by Christian Fuchs 30 Mar '21

30 Mar '21

New, third edition: Christian Fuchs. 2021. Social Media: A Critical Introduction. London: Sage. Third edition. 448 pages. Preface, introduction, sample chapter, and more infos here: https://fuchsc.uti.at/social-media-a-critical-introduction-third-edition/ Social media are an integral part of contemporary society. From news and politics to language and everyday life, they have changed the way we communicate, use information and understand the world. So we have to ask critical questions about social media. We have to dig deeper into issues of ownership, power, class and (in)justice. This book equips you with a critical understanding of the complexities and contradictions at the heart of social media’s relationship with society. The revised and expanded Third Edition: * Explores populism, racism and nationalism in a new chapter on right-wing authoritarianism. * Introduces the phenomenon of social media influencers in the age of Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat. * Explains how big data is central to social media in a new chapter on big data capitalism and imperialism. * Explores the growing prominence of platforms and platform capitalism. * Challenges you to envision and achieve a truly social media that serves the purposes of a just and fair world. * Analyses fake news and misinformation in the context of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. There are winners and losers in the age of digital capitalism. This book is an essential guide for anyone who wants to critically understand how we got to digital capitalism, and what we can do about it. Table of Contents List of figures and tables, page ix About the author, page xiii Preface, page xv I FOUNDATIONS, page 1 1 What is a Critical Introduction to Social Media?, page 3 2 What are Social Media?, page 25 3 Big Data Capitalism, page 49 II APPLICATIONS, page 71 4 The Power and Political Economy of Social Media, page 73 5 Google: Good or Evil Search Engine?, page 109 6 Facebook and WhatsApp: Surveillance in the Age of Fake News, page 139 7 Influencer Capitalism: Reified Consciousness in the Age of Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat, page 173 8 Twitter and Democracy: A New Public Sphere?, page 205 9 Right-wing Authoritarianism on Social Media, page 239 10 Weibo: Power, Ideology, and Social Struggles in China, page 265 11 The Sharing Economy of Airbnb, Uber, and Upwork, page 285 12 Platform Capitalism, page 309 13 Wikipedia: A New Democratic Form of Collaborative Work and Production?, page 327 III FUTURES 14 Capitalist Social Media’s Major Problems and Alternatives, page 347 15 A Manifesto for Truly Social Media, page 367 References, page 387 Index, page 413

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Researchers need copyright exceptions and liabilities--new project!
by Patricia Aufderheide 30 Mar '21

30 Mar '21

The Academic Network on the Right to Research in International Copyright is calling for research relevant to the development of global norms on copyright policy in its application to research. Text and data mining research, for example, is contributing insights to respond to urgent social problems, from combatting COVID to monitoring hate speech and disinformation on social media. Other technologies make it possible to access the materials of libraries, archives and museums from afar - an especially necessary activity during the COVID pandemic. But these and other research activities may require reproduction and sharing of copyright protected works, including across borders. There is a lack of global norms for such activities, which may contribute to uncertainty and apprehension, inhibiting research projects and collaborations. We seek to partner with researchers interested in exploring the means and ends of recognizing a “right to research” in international copyright law. Accepted proposals will be included within a 3-year project that is linking academic research to the work of a global civil society coalition working on policy reform. Through this project, researchers will receive sustained opportunities for collaboration and presentation, publication, an honorarium and possibility of coverage of some ancillary costs. More on the call and a link to the application is at http://infojustice.org/archives/43046<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://infojustice.org/archives/43046__;!!IaT_g…> We ask for submissions by May 15, 2021. Questions to me are welcome. -Sean Sean Michael Fiil-Flynn Professorial Lecturer and Director Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property American University Washington College of Law PIJIP news and views: www.pijip.org<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.pijip.org/__;!!IaT_gp1N!j6-U6gOCQKPr…>; https://twitter.com/WCL_PIJIP<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://twitter.com/WCL_PIJIP__;!!IaT_gp1N!j6-U…> Editor in Chief, www.infojustice.org<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.infojustice.org/__;!!IaT_gp1N!j6-U6g…> Personal Twitter https://twitter.com/Sean_Fiil_Flynn<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://twitter.com/Sean_Fiil_Flynn__;!!IaT_gp1…> Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor, School of Communication (she/her/hers) PhD Program Director Founder, Center for Media & Social Impact American University 4400 Massachusetts Av., NW American University, Washington, DC 20016-8017 McKinley Hall 323 @paufder @cmsimpact cmsimpact.org<http://cmsimpact.org> paufder(a)american.edu<mailto:paufder@american.edu> 202-885-2069 office 240-643-4805 mobile Zoom Office Hours: https://american.zoom.us/j/96788556467?pwd=eFNpa2JMWlZQRm5pT1Z0b3RVUlRXQT09 Reclaiming Fair Use--t<https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/022637419X?pf_rd_p=d1f45e03-8b73-4c9a-9be…>he second edition is out, with new stories, quizzes and entirely new chapters on the surprising success of fair use in enabling creativity!

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Free registration for Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices & the Everyday now open (21-23 april 2021)
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 30 Mar '21

30 Mar '21

Dear colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting. We're pleased to note that general registration to join our free online conference Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices & the Everyday is now open (21-23 april 2021) Click this link to register: https://migrantbelongings.sites.uu.nl/registration-form-general-audience/?f… to join our keynotes and all 170+ presentations, alongside screenings, q&a’s with media makers, roundtables and our paper award ceremony, among others The registration deadline is April 15, 2021. We are tweeting the conference under the hashtag #migrantbelongings Confirmed keynotes: • Paul Gilroy (University College London) • Engin Isin (Queen Mary, University of London) • Nicholas de Genova (University of Houston) • Larissa Hjorth (RMIT University, Melbourne) • Saskia Witteborn (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Theme description Migrant belonging through digital connectivity refers to a way of being in the world that cuts across national borders, shaping new forms of diasporic affiliations and transnational intimacy. This happens in ways that are different from the ways enabled by the communication technologies of the past. Scholarly attention has intensified around the question of how various new technical affordances of platforms and apps are shaping the transnationally connected, and locally situated, social worlds in which migrants live their everyday lives. This international conference focuses on the connection between the media and migration from different disciplinary vantage points. Connecting with friends, peers and family, sharing memories and personally identifying information, navigating spaces and reshaping the local and the global in the process is but one side of the coin of migrant-related technology use: this Janus-faced development also subjects individual as well as groups to increased datafied migration management, algorithmic control and biometric classification as well as forms of transnational authoritarianism and networked repression. This conference pays particular attention to the everyday use of digital media for the support of transnational lives, emotional bonds and cosmopolitan affiliations, focusing also on the the role digital media play in shaping local/urban and national diasporic formations. This is because it becomes increasingly important to give everyday digital media usage a central role in investigations of transnational belonging, digital intimacy, diasporic community (re)production, migrant subject formation, long-distance political participation, urban social integration and local/national self-organization. Therefore we need to examine individual and collective user practices within the wider historical and cultural contexts of media studies, cultural studies and postcolonial cultural studies scholarship, attuned to issues of politics and power, identity, geographies and the everyday. This also creates new challenges for cross-disciplinary dialogues that require an integration of ethnography with digital methods and critical data studies in order to look at the formation of identity and experience, representation, community building, and creating spaces of belongingness. See more here: https://migrantbelongings.sites.uu.nl/ Sandra Ponzanesi & Koen Leurs, conference convenors, on behalf of the conference team.

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book event "COVID-19 from the Margins" @ Berkman Center (March 30)
by Stefania Milan 29 Mar '21

29 Mar '21

Dear colleagues Tuesday the 30^th of March we will present the book "COVID-19 from the Margins. Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance in the Datafied Society" [0] at the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society, Harvard University. The session will feature three book chapter authors, namely Irene Poetranto, Diego Cerna Aragon and Shyam Krishna, alongside with the book editors Stefania Milan, Emiliano Treré and Silvia Masiero. Read more here [1]. *COVID-19 from the Margins: Pandemic Invisibilities, Datafied Policies and Resistant Solidarity* TimeMar 30, 2021 12:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada) The event is**free and open to all**, so please consider joining. Follow this link [1] to register! The book is open access and can be downloaded in both pdf and epub versions. We hope to see you there. Best, Stefania, Emiliano and Silvia [0] https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/covid-19-from-the-margins-pand… [1]https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/covid-19-margins <https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/covid-19-margins> [2]https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pD2iVTmWQ6yDffkoSWzgSw <https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pD2iVTmWQ6yDffkoSWzgSw>

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Registration conference Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices & the Everyday now open (21-23 april 2021)
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 29 Mar '21

29 Mar '21

Dear colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting. We're pleased to note that general registration to join our free online conference Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices & the Everyday is now open (21-23 april 2021) Click this link to register: https://migrantbelongings.sites.uu.nl/registration-form-general-audience/?f… to join our keynotes and all 170+ presentations, alongside screenings, q&a’s with media makers, roundtables and our paper award ceremony, among others The registration deadline is April 15, 2021. We are tweeting the conference under the hashtag #migrantbelongings Confirmed keynotes: • Paul Gilroy (University College London) • Engin Isin (Queen Mary, University of London) • Nicholas de Genova (University of Houston) • Larissa Hjorth (RMIT University, Melbourne) • Saskia Witteborn (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Theme description Migrant belonging through digital connectivity refers to a way of being in the world that cuts across national borders, shaping new forms of diasporic affiliations and transnational intimacy. This happens in ways that are different from the ways enabled by the communication technologies of the past. Scholarly attention has intensified around the question of how various new technical affordances of platforms and apps are shaping the transnationally connected, and locally situated, social worlds in which migrants live their everyday lives. This international conference focuses on the connection between the media and migration from different disciplinary vantage points. Connecting with friends, peers and family, sharing memories and personally identifying information, navigating spaces and reshaping the local and the global in the process is but one side of the coin of migrant-related technology use: this Janus-faced development also subjects individual as well as groups to increased datafied migration management, algorithmic control and biometric classification as well as forms of transnational authoritarianism and networked repression. This conference pays particular attention to the everyday use of digital media for the support of transnational lives, emotional bonds and cosmopolitan affiliations, focusing also on the the role digital media play in shaping local/urban and national diasporic formations. This is because it becomes increasingly important to give everyday digital media usage a central role in investigations of transnational belonging, digital intimacy, diasporic community (re)production, migrant subject formation, long-distance political participation, urban social integration and local/national self-organization. Therefore we need to examine individual and collective user practices within the wider historical and cultural contexts of media studies, cultural studies and postcolonial cultural studies scholarship, attuned to issues of politics and power, identity, geographies and the everyday. This also creates new challenges for cross-disciplinary dialogues that require an integration of ethnography with digital methods and critical data studies in order to look at the formation of identity and experience, representation, community building, and creating spaces of belongingness. See more here: https://migrantbelongings.sites.uu.nl/ Sandra Ponzanesi & Koen Leurs, conference convenors, on behalf of the conference team.

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[REMINDER] MGRL Lecture Series: David Parisi & Justin Grandinetti
by Adriana de Souza e Silva 29 Mar '21

29 Mar '21

*** Apologies for cross-postings*** Department of Communication Mobile Gaming Research Lab Spring ‘21 Lecture Series Please join us for the Mobile Gaming Research Lab’s Spring ‘21 Lecture Series webinar. To celebrate the release of the Retro Mobile Gaming Database (http://database.mglab.chass.ncsu.edu <http://database.mglab.chass.ncsu.edu/>/), this webinar will feature scholars whose research is at the intersection of mobile games, archives and history. The talks will explore the history of touch-based mobile game interfaces and how Pokémon Go contributes to the creation of digital memory. WHEN: April 7, 2021 | 1:30-2:30 p.m. EST Featured Presentations Instrumentalities of Touch in Mobile Game Interfaces Dr. David Parisi, Associate Professor of Communication, College of Charleston (USA) Touch-based mobile game interfaces, by opening up new sites of contact between players and games, participate in a fantastical re-imagination of touch that originated in 1950s theories of information transmission. According to this model, touch could be deployed as the standing reserve of audiovisual interfaces, an alternative pathway for transmitting messages that compensates for the overloading and overcrowding of seeing and hearing in the modern media environment. By mapping the gap between these imagined transformative uses for digital touch and touch’s comparatively mundane deployment in contemporary mobile games, this talk provides a framework for further explorations of the relationship between mobile gaming and tactility. Speaker Bio (https://communication.cofc.edu/about/faculty-staff-listing/parisi-david.php <https://communication.cofc.edu/about/faculty-staff-listing/parisi-david.php>) » Pokémon GO and Digital Memory Dr. Justin Grandinetti, Assistant Professor of Communication, University of North Carolina Charlotte (USA) Critical to the functionality of the location-aware augmented reality mobile gameplay of Pokémon GO are elements of pervasive data collection, storage, and processing. For the player, this manifests in location-aware log and journal features, but also through the new Pokéstop scanning process that allows developer Niantic to “crowdsource” AR maps. In this presentation, Dr. Grandinetti will examine the digital memory of Pokémon GO as posthuman cognitive assemblage (Hayles, 2016; Lee, 2018) and part of a lineage of a personalized relation to space. Speaker Bio (http://www.justingrandinetti.com/ <http://www.justingrandinetti.com/>)» REGISTER HERE: https://ncsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Mxndqj3NQbCTlMS9aqoFmw <https://ncsu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Mxndqj3NQbCTlMS9aqoFmw> _________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva University Faculty Scholar Professor Department of Communication NC State University http://www.souzaesilva.com <http://www.souzaesilva.com/> _________________________ Adriana de Souza e Silva University Faculty Scholar Professor Department of Communication NC State University http://www.souzaesilva.com <http://www.souzaesilva.com/>

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