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Deadline extended: CMSTW'2021 on communication architectures!
by Svetlana S. Bodrunova 27 Feb '21

27 Feb '21

Dear AoIR members, this is to inform you that the deadline for CMSTW'2021 in St.Petersburg, Russia (virtually) is extended to March 5, 2021. The conference will take place on April 20-21 and will discuss communication architectures. Our keynotes include Noshir Contractor (USA), Barbie Zelizer (USA), Oscar Westlund (Norway) and Thorsten Quandt (Germany). The conference offers publication opportunities in Digital Journalism (Q1) and Future Internet (Q2). It will be conducted for the 9th time and will have a plenary podium discussion, several round tables, and virtual tours in the famous museums of St.Petersburg to substitute the cultural program unavailable in the COVID-affected times. Please submit here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmstw2021 -- Svetlana S. Bodrunova, Prof., D.Polit.Sci. Head, Center for International Media Research School of Journalism and Mass Communications, St.Petersburg State University +7 921 933 02 14 s.bodrunova(a)spbu.ru, spasibo-tebe(a)yandex.ru

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CfP Special Issue "Revisiting Teaching and Games" journal gamevironments
by Lisa Kienzl 26 Feb '21

26 Feb '21

Dear all, If you are interested in "Revisiting Teaching and Games: mapping out ecosystems of learning" please check out the Call for Papers for the upcoming Special Issue of the international peer-reviewed online journal GAMEVIRONMENTS edited by Björn Berg Marklund, Jordan Brady Loewen and Maria Saridaki. Best wishes, Lisa CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue GAMEVIRONMENTS ------------------------------------------------------------- Revisiting Teaching and Games: mapping out ecosystems of learning edited by Björn Berg Marklund, Jordan Brady Loewen and Maria Saridaki ------------------------------------------------------------- Deadline for 300-word abstracts 1. April 2021 ------------------------------------------------------------- Games educate us, challenge us, and generate novelty in how we relate to ourselves and each other. They help us learn that failure can be fun and encourage us to explore. Yet, it is worth asking ourselves: when we think about the potential of gameplay for teaching, how can we better consider the ecosystem of unique relationships between players, creators, and those who try to facilitate spaces for meaningful play? If we hope for games to reach their most meaningful potential in - and as - educational environments, starting an authentic and open dialogue of intentionality and failure is crucial. As a community, we need stories, models, practices, and theories of teaching to map out the complex ecosystem of learning. Like teaching, gameplay is environmental. The social and cultural setting, the ambitions (and biases) of designers, educators and players, and the technologies used all influence the colors, moments, stories, and characters we ultimately experience on our screens. Gameplay is at its most meaningful when we intentionally put play and its environment in dialogue, making space for learning, exploration, and engagement. However, understanding the living, complex, and dynamic intertwining between the inhabitants of this ecosystem and the actualizing of meaningful teaching has proven difficult. It is often the "thingness" of the game, not the persons involved, which captures our attention – flashy visuals and impressive technologies overshadow the unique qualities of those who gather around the screens, who create experiential environments of gaming hardware, and who code and curate the pixelating properties of gameplay. In this special issue, we want to curate a collection of accessible stories, theories, and methods of triumphs and failures involving gaming and teaching. We invite perspectives from inhabitants of the entire gameplay ecosystem: developers, teachers, museum guides, facilitators, students, policy makers, scholars, journalists, artists, and anyone else who would like to share their experiences of creating and incorporating games and game-based technologies into their teaching. We particularly invite methodological/theoretical approaches addressing the topic of teaching and games, especially those involving, new approaches as well as critical discussions and praxis involving missed opportunities and failures, as well as moments of unexpected successes and meaningful change. We encourage reflections on positive and negative experiences as sharing both is necessary if we want games to ultimately become accessible to everyone, and ensure that we create inclusive learning environments. This call is an invitation to join the conversation. In addition to the journal's traditional formats of peer-reviewed articles, we are also including a /Call for Failures and Successes, /a short-paper format focusing on real-world experiences with games and teaching (see information below). Topics for the peer reviewed articles & the stories of failure and successes may include, but are not limited to: * Teaching about games, teaching with games, or teaching through games * Teaching with new immersive technologies: VR, AR, MR, playful wearables & IoT * Games for journalism, activism, public outreach, citizen empowerment, and critical discourse * How to design better games & better educational experiences * Failures and Success in collaboration between designers, educators and policy makers. * Pedagogical strategies for using games in different contexts and with different purposes * Gameful Facilitator: Processes involved in organizing & executing game-based events. * Gaming related to value formations in culture, religion & society * Empathy games: cultural awareness, human connections, and/or community building * Designing and using games as a democratic tools towards accessibility & inclusion * Transformative learning in the educational environments - the interplay between the physical and virtual spaces * Students’ experience & perspectives - individual and intersocial changes in the teaching environment * “Failure is Fun” - discussing games as pedagogy & transformation, reaching positive learning outcomes through “failures” * Discussions of game literacy, and its impacts on teaching with games * Discourses on physical, socio-economic, cultural, and political aspects of game environments * The politics of games and game technologies: structures of power that affect the creative use of games for teaching * Teaching by making games: game design & game jams as a teaching opportunity * Designing site specific games & urban games in education * Designing and using single-player vs. multiplayer games for and in educational environments * Methods for evaluating games and teaching: how do we evaluate the unique outcomes of using games in a plurality of environments? * How do we define “learning effects” when studying teaching and games? ------------------------------------------------------------ GUIDELINES Submit a title and 300-word abstract to Björn Berg Marklund (bjorn.berg.marklund(a)his.se <mailto:bjorn.berg.marklund@his.se>), Jordan Brady Loewen (jbloewen(a)syr.edu <mailto:jbloewen@syr.edu>) and Maria Saridaki (msaridaki(a)gmail.com <mailto:msaridaki@gmail.com>) by 1. April 2021. Possible formats for submission include: a) regular academic articles b) interviews c) research reports d) book reviews e) game reviews f) short-paper format “Failures and Successes” Guideline for the short-paper format /Failures and Successes/: Please provide in 1 concise page (roughly 400 words) the /context, intentions, and failures or successes/**involving digital games for teaching. In your proposal, clearly highlight each category. * For**/context/, provide important information about the situation you’ll be writing from. For example, what types of students are you working with? What type of learning setting are you going to be discussing (e.g., courses, programs, grades, public space, etc.)? * What was your**/intention/ to use, teach, or involve video games as part of your pedagogical strategy? What were you hoping it would help students learn? * How and why did it**/fail or succeed/, and what was learned from that failure/success? If you were to try again, what might you do differently? Please include pictures and media if you have them. Keep your language clear and concise. All articles submitted will be subject to double-blind peer-review. There is no article processing charge. For more on submission formats and guidelines see: http://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/submission-guideline/ <http://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/submission-guideline/>__ _https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/gv-stylesheet.pdf_ TIMELINE Title and abstract submission: 1. April 2021 Full text submission: 1. July 2021 -- Dr. Dr. Lisa Kienzl managing editor gamevironments wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin | postdoctoral researcher Arbeitsgebiet Literaturen und Medien der Religionen | Literature and Media of Religions (Pronomen: sie/ihr. Pronouns: she/her) Universität Bremen | University of Bremen Institut für Religionswissenschaft und Religionspädagogik | Institute of Religious Studies and Religious Education Sportturm (SpT) Postfach 330 440 D-28359 Bremen T. +49 (0)421 218 67912 https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/

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Job Listing: Assistant Prof. Black Digital Media Studies, WashU in St. Louis
by Reem Hilu 26 Feb '21

26 Feb '21

Dear Members, Apologies for cross-posting. Washington University in St. Louis is hiring an Assistant Professor in Black Digital Media Studies. Details below. Link to application: https://apply.interfolio.com/84068 The Department of African & African American Studies (AFAS) and Program in Film & Media Studies (FMS) at Washington University in St. Louis invite applications for a tenure-track joint appointment in Black Digital Media Studies. The position will be at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin in the fall semester of 2021 and home-based in AFAS. This position is part of the Digital Transformation cluster hire: (https://insideartsci.wustl.edu/ digital-transformation-hiring-initiative). *Q**ualifications * We are seeking innovative applicants in the field of digital media, new technologies, computing and/or data analytics with an emphasis in Black, Africana and/or Diasporic Studies. Areas of specialization might include, but are not limited to, Black technocultures, digital racism, activist media, gaming, alternative streaming platforms, surveillance technologies (facial recognition, biometrics, and digital profiling), AI, algorithmic bias, and social media. Applicants with firm grounding in cultural analytics are of particular interest, as are those with demonstrated interest in the use of digital platforms to collect and preserve Black film and media culture in the U.S. and globally as a form of community engagement. Priority will be given to an energetic and promising scholar with evidence of publication, the desire to be an engaged member of two growing, dynamic academic units, and a commitment to the social equity and racial justice missions of AFAS and FMS. The successful candidate must be able to teach introductory, advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in AFAS and FMS and who might contribute to the curriculum in Data Science in the Humanities. Of the four courses taught during an academic year, one will be homebased in FMS. Other duties include advising students and participating in AFAS and FMS activities and governance. A strong candidate will demonstrate the ability to create inclusive classroom environments in which a diverse array of students can learn and thrive. Applicants must have completed the Ph.D. no later than June 30, 2021. Advanced assistant professors are welcome to apply. *A**p**plication Instructions* - A cover letter, including a statement of current and future research goals, a brief teaching statement and relevant classes, and a demonstration of how the candidate fits into the missions of both AFAS and FMS - Curriculum Vitae - Teaching portfolio, including sample syllabi and copies of student evaluations (if available) - One writing sample, preferably a published article,book chapter, or a d issertation chapter may be submitted if previous publications are unavail able. - Three (3) letters of reference Application materials should be submitted via Interfolio (apply.interfolio.com/84068 ). Questions should be addressed to Janary Stanton at, jstanton(a)wustl.edu with the subject line “Black Digital Media search.” Applications will be reviewed starting Saturday, March 20,2021. Washington University in St. Louis seeks an exceptionally qualified and diverse faculty; women, minorities, protected veterans, and candidates with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. Washington University is committed to the principles and practices of equal employment opportunity and especially encourages applications by those underrepresented in their academic fields. It is the University’s policy to recruit, hire, train, and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or genetic information. Each year Washington University publishes a Safety and Security brochure tha t details what to do and whom to contact in an emergency. This report also p ublishes the federally required annual security and fire safety reports, con taining campus crime and fire statistics as well as key university policies and procedures. You may access the Safety and Security brochure at, ht tps://police.wustl.edu/clery-reports-logs/

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Veronica Barassi BOOK EVENT: 'How Tech Companies are Profiling Us from before Birth' | LSE Digital Ethnography Collective
by Glatt,ZA (pgr) 26 Feb '21

26 Feb '21

Hi all! The LSE Digital Ethnography Collective are delighted to invite you to our next zoom event with the wonderful Professor Veronica Barassi on Wednesday 28th April (6-7:30pm BST). Veronica will be talking about her new book ‘Child Data Citizen: How Tech Companies are Profiling Us from Before Birth’ (MIT Press, 2020) and will also be discussing 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 will reflect on the merits and challenges of ethnography and autoethnography in the understanding of our complex data environments. As usual, our events are designed to be interactive and generative of ideas and conversation, so we hope you'll come with questions for Veronica and a desire to discuss datafication, family life and (auto)ethnography. You can book a free ticket and read all info here: https://plum-bee-852.eventbritestudio.com/136930664303 Hope you’re all well! Zoe SPEAKER BIO: Veronica Barassi is an anthropologist, the mother of two daughters, and Professor in Media and Communication Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS-HSG) at the University of St. Gallen, as well as the Chair of Media and Culture at the MCM Institute (MCM-HSG). She was previously a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths University of London, where she launched together with her colleagues the Goldsmiths Media Ethnography Group. Her work has appeared in top-ranked international journals and edited collections. Her first book, Activism on the Web: Everyday Struggles against Digital Capitalism (Routledge, 2015), was the product of years of ethnographic research (funded by the AHRC and the British Academy) on digital participation and social media campaigning. Her TED Talk on What Tech Companies know about Children has reached more than 1.6 million views. At the moment she is launching a new project titled The Human Error: AI, Human Rights and the Conflict over Algorithmic Profiling. BOOK DESCRIPTION: 'Child Data Citizen: How Tech-Companies are Profiling Us From Before Birth' is the direct result of the Child | Data | Citizen project. The book explores the datafication of children and its democratic implications. Today, for the first time in history we are tracking individual children from long before they are born. From the moment in which a child is conceived, important biometric information is uploaded on social media or pregnancy apps. As children grow up, most of their health and educational data is digitized, archived and sold by privately owned corporations. All these different forms of data monitoring and processing are just the tip of the iceberg. The picture becomes much more complex if we consider the role played by home hubs, artificial intelligence devices, and facial recognition technologies. What is becoming obvious is that children’s personal information is now being collected, archived, sold and profiled in ways that were not possible before. The book talks directly about this transformation, and critically reflects on its implications for our society and our democratic futures. The book focuses on four different typologies of children’s data: health data, education data, home life data and social media data. It has been written by an anthropologist and a parent, who spent three years working with families in the UK and the US and analyzing the complex ways in which children’s data is being produced, collected, aggregated, and shared. The author combines intimate stories about data-tracking in family life, parental consent, and ‘sharenting’ with a critical investigation into the privacy policies, business models, patents applications and sharing agreements that allow companies and other agents to mine children’s data. Barassi argues that when we think about children’s data traces the question at heart is not only one about privacy, but about how these data traces may be used by AI systems and predictive analytics to profile them throughout their lives, and define them in public, as citizens. By engaging with critical question about algorithmic bias, AI ethics and data justice, the book asks what are the social and political implications of building a society where data traces are made to talk for and about citizens across a life-time? And how can we protect ourselves when we realize that the ‘predictions’ and narratives that algorithms construct about individuals are reductionist, discriminatory and, in the case of children, pre-emptive representations of who they are? ~We are the LSE Digital Ethnography Collective, an interdisciplinary group exploring the intersections of digital culture and ethnographic methods. We invite scholars at all levels to join us for events where we host speakers and workshop new ideas. The aim of the group to establish a community of scholars of digital ethnography and to work through challenges in this emerging subdiscipline. Follow us on Twitter (@DigEthnogLSE) and join our mailing list (https://tinyurl.com/y5a6odte) to hear about exciting new scholarship in this area as well as updates on all of our future events.~ ________________________ 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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Call for contribution - Glossary of decentralised technosocial systems
by Balazs Bodo 26 Feb '21

26 Feb '21

APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING Dear all, I'd like to share with you this call for contribution <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpolicyrev…> for the *Glossary of decentralised technosocial systems <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpolicyrev…>- *a project aimed at building a shared vocabulary on the social, technical, economic, political aspects of decentralised, distributed or sovereign technologies. We invite contributions on the emancipatory, counter-hegemonic, subversive potential of digital technologies at the intersection of computer science, law philosophy, social sciences. The Glossary is a long-term collaborative project which will keep evolving over time, enriched periodically with more terms and open to new contributors. Its scope is to build a foundational vocabulary for academic and non-academic discourse on technologies, sociotechnical systems and practices of decentralisation. We invite proposals for new terms in the form of short abstracts (max. 200 words) to be later developed into a short glossary entry. The compiled entries will be collected in a special section of the Internet Policy Review <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpolicyrev…>. For expression of interest email to: v.ferrari(a)uva.nl - by the 21st of March. The initiative is led by The Blockchain and Society Policy Research Lab (University of Amsterdam), in collaboration with the P2P Models (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Trust in Distributed Environments (Weizenbaum Institut, Berlin) and Blockchain Gov teams (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris). Feel free to ask for more information. Hope many of you will be interested! b.- ---------------------------------------- Balázs Bodó, PhD Associate Professor Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam http://www.ivir.nl/ Blockchain & Society Policy Research Lab (funded by an ERC Starting Grant) https://blockchain-society.science/ Latest publications: Bodó B, Antal D, Puha Z (2020) Can scholarly pirate libraries bridge the knowledge access gap? An empirical study on the structural conditions of book piracy in global and European academia. PLoS ONE 15(12): e0242509. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242509 Bodó, B. (2020). Mediated trust: A theoretical framework to address the trustworthiness of technological trust mediators. New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444820939922 Bodó, B., & Giannopoulou, A. (2019). The logics of technology decentralization: the case of Distributed Ledger Technologies. In M. Ragnedda, & G. Destefanis (Eds.), Blockchain and Web 3.0: Social, Economic, and Technological Challenges Routledge.

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TPRC49 September 2021 Call for Papers
by Mansell,RE 26 Feb '21

26 Feb '21

This conference may be of interest – probably hybrid online/in person. Please consider submitting your research to TPRC49, the leading academic policy conference for communications, information, and internet on Sept 24-25 in Wash, DC. We accept abstracts for papers, panels, and posters on critical policy issues. Selected papers presented at TPRC are published in top information policy journals and are presented to policy makers on the Hill. Let your students know that we offer a Student Paper Contest for a $1000 cash award and travel stipend. Our event is a great place to advance papers for publication in top journals, gain visibility to policymakers, and network with policy scholars. Check out the Call for Papers http://www.tprcweb.com/tprc49-cfp. Abstracts are due March 31; student papers for contest, April 30. Sign up for our newsletter to get updates. http://www.tprcweb.com/join-our-email-list. The call for papers is also attached in the PDF. Feel free to share with others. Thanks for your interest.

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REMINDER: CFP deadline approaching for a Convergence Special Issue on "Critical Technical Practice(s) in Digital Research"
by van Geenen, Daniela 26 Feb '21

26 Feb '21

Hi everyone, There is one week left to submit an abstract for the Special Issue on "Critical Technical Practice(s) in Digital Research" that I’m guest editing together with Dr. Karin van Es (Utrecht University) and Dr. Jonathan Gray (Kings College London) for Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. Please consider submitting an abstract and spread the word! Information on the CFP: The criticism of knowledge technologies has a long tradition in science and technology studies (STS), feminist studies and media studies approaches often addressing the ways in which technologies frame epistemic processes in scientific and technical settings (e.g. Latour, 1987; Latour and Woolgar, 1979; Haraway, 1988 and 1997; Chun, 2011; Galloway, 2012; Manovich, 2013). Knowledge technologies are not just the preserve of natural scientists and engineers, but also present in a wide variety of everyday and professional settings –including social and cultural research, in particular, in critical approaches to ‘Big Data’ and algorithmic systems. Importantly, these tools frame how we approach our objects and sites of study; they are not neutral, but active mediators impacting the ways knowledge is produced and disseminated. This special issue explores the contemporary relevance of the notion of ‘critical technical practice’ (Agre, 1997a) to digital research in the humanities and social sciences including internet studies, critical data studies (e.g. Iliadis and Russo, 2016), critical algorithm studies (Gillespie and Seaver, 2016), and software studies (e.g. Rieder, 2020). Philip Agre (1997a and b) coined the notion of critical technical practice (CTP) in his work on artificial intelligence, proposing the challenge of having ‘one foot planted in the craft work of design and the other foot planted in the reflexive work of critique’ (Agre, 1997b: p. 155). The issue aims to bring together, advance, and reflect on recent work on the relevance of critical technical practice(s) for scholarship, pedagogy, and public engagement around digital devices and computational tools in the context of social and cultural research. It takes up recent calls advocating the relevance of such approaches to tool development, research, and education in cultural and social studies in order to approach digital media as both objects and instruments of investigation (e.g. Dieter, 2014; Gray, Bounegru, Milan, and Ciuccarelli, 2016; Gray and Bounegru, forthcoming; Rieder & Röhle, 2012 and 2017; Van Es, Wieringa, Schäfer, 2018; Van Geenen, 2018 and 2020). The editors welcome contributions from a range of disciplinary perspectives that explore questions such as: * How can researchers organise critical inquiry with and about such digital tools, methods, and data collections? * How can devices such as network graphs, spreadsheets, scrapers, APIs, machine-learning tools, and code libraries be repurposed in cultural and social research, with a critical sensibility towards their genealogies and sociocultural lives? * How can methods be taken as sites of experimentation around the composition of collective life, between research and other areas of practice (e.g. activism, education, journalism, or policy)? Important dates: Deadline for abstracts: 7 March 2021 Full paper submission: 2 August 2021 Expected date of publication: April 2022 Abstract submission: Please send a 500-word abstract and a 100-word bio to the guest editors: daniela.vgeenen@uni-<mailto:daniela.vgeenen@uni-siegen.de>siegen.de<mailto:daniela.vgeenen@uni-siegen.de>, k.f.vanes(a)uu.nl<mailto:k.f.vanes@uu.nl> and jonathan.gray(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:jonathan.gray@kcl.ac.uk> The official CFP can also be found here: https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/Convergence_Special%20Issue_CTP%20in… For questions please don’t hesitate to contact me or one of the other guest editors! All the best! Daniela van Geenen | PhD Candidate | Media of Cooperation, University of Siegen | Herrengarten 3, AH-306 OUT NOW: our CFP for a CONVERGENCE Special Issue on "Critical Technical Practice(s) in Digital Research” | Deadline for abstracts: 7 March 2021 | w/ Dr. Karin van Es & Dr. Jonathan Gray | https://tinyurl.com/CTPinDigitalResearch RECENT PUBLICATIONS: Van Geenen, D. (2020). Critical Affordance Analysis for Digital Methods: The Case of Gephi. In M. Burkhardt, M. Shnayien, & K. Grashöfer (Eds.), Explorations in Digital Cultures. meson press. http://doi.org/10.14619/1716 Van Geenen, D. & Wieringa, M. (2020). Approaching data visualizations as interfaces: An empirical demonstration of how data are imag(in)ed. In Engebretsen, M., & Kennedy, H. (Eds.), Data Visualization in Society. Amsterdam University Press. https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463722902/data-visualization-in-society

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AoIR2021 Conference Update
by Michelle, Association of Internet Researchers 25 Feb '21

25 Feb '21

The Association of Internet Researchers has some big news to share: *AoIR 2021 is going virtual! And everyone’s invited!* Due to ongoing public health concerns and travel restrictions, AoIR has been able to renegotiate our hotel contract in Philadelphia, PA (U.S.A.). This means that AoIR 2021 WILL BE A FULLY VIRTUAL CONFERENCE that will take place 13-16 October 2021! We are extending the call for papers deadline to 15 April in order to encourage YOUR participation! As you may know, the AoIR organization had made plans for an in-person 2021 conference in order to fulfill contractual obligations in Philadelphia, PA (U.S.A.), and with the bitter recognition that many would be unable to attend in person. However, we have now been able to reach new agreements with our conference partners. We are very grateful for the team that had been working on conference organizing details in Philadelphia, and we are pleased that several of them will be able to continue to provide leadership in the planning of what is now an entirely virtual 2021 event. We’re now forming the conference planning committee for the #AoIR 2021: Independence conference. Would you like to help us as a volunteer for this event? If so, please be in touch! Here’s our new schedule: 15 Apr - Extended deadline for abstract submissions to AoIR 2021 1 June - Conference acceptances 1 Aug - Video presentations due 1 Aug - Registration deadline 13-16 Oct - AoIR 2021 Please note that in light of this change from an in-person to a virtual event, the call for proposals has also changed: - We are accepting extended abstract submissions for papers and panels only. Unfortunately, due to logistical issues we will be unable to consider preconference proposals, or proposals for fishbowls and roundtables. As with AoIR 2020, independently-organized preconference and satellite events will be encouraged for the week of 4 October and publicized in the AoIR calendar of events. - Video presentations will be required of all accepted submissions and must be uploaded by 1 August in order to be included in the conference program and in our conference proceedings, Selected Papers of Internet Research (SPIR). Specific guidelines for these video presentations will be similar to last year, and will be sent out with conference acceptances. We are so excited to announce this change, and to have the opportunity to all gather, even if virtually, again. If you would like to volunteer, please reach out to any member of the Exec ( https://aoir.org/executive-committee/) We continue to look forward to our next in-person meeting in Dublin in the Fall of 2022. This year the Association of Internet Researchers will be electing a new Executive Committee. Very soon you will be receiving a call for nominations from the current President, Prof. Lynn Schofield Clark. We hope you will submit by 15 April and join us in October! Your AoIR Executive Committee Lynn Schofield Clark, President Tama Leaver, Vice President Axel Bruns, Immediate Past President Kelly Quinn, Treasurer Kat Tiidenberg, Secretary Zoe Glatt, Grad Student Representative Crystal Abidin, Open Seat Fabio Giglietto, Open Seat Erika Pearson, Open Seat And Adrienne Shaw, 2021 Program Chair Michelle Gardner, Association Coordinator

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Digital politics/advocacy trends
by Colin Delany 25 Feb '21

25 Feb '21

Hi folks, I recently published a "Ten Big Trends in Digital Politics & Advocacy" post, a long-running piece I update every year or two. If you're interested, here's a link: https://www.epolitics.com/2021/02/02/ten-big-trends-in-digital-politics-act… The "trends" article is an excerpt from my digital campaigning/digital advocacy ebook, and I'll also be posting a sample 2021 digital campaign plan soon if you're looking for class resources. That should go up next week, and I'll share it here as well. Please let me know if you have any questions! I'm also happy to connect folks with digital politics practitioners (including myself!) who'd be willing to speak with classes remotely. --cpd "How to Use the Internet to Change the World - and Win Elections: A Comprehensive Guide to Digital Politics for Campaigns, Activists & Advocates" [Ebook] http://www.epolitics.com/winning Colin Delany Epolitics.com -- digital strategy for politics and advocacy http://www.epolitics.com 202-422-4682 cpd(a)epolitics.com @epolitics

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CFP (Surveillance & Society): Domestic Terrorism, White Supremacy, and State Surveillance
by Bryce Newell 25 Feb '21

25 Feb '21

Dear Colleagues, As the Dialogue Editor of Surveillance & Society, I invite expressions of interest to write short (~2000-word) papers for an upcoming Dialogue section of the journal focused on the interrelated topics of "Domestic Terrorism, White Supremacy, and State Surveillance." We aim to publish the section in either the June or September 2021 issue of Surveillance & Society. In this Dialogue, we seek contributions that examine how concerns about domestic terrorism, white supremacy, and/or nationalism have impacted domestic state surveillance practices and surveillance powers in countries around the world. The attack on the U.S. Capitol Building in January 2021 represents just one recent and high-profile instance of how nationalism and white supremacy have resulted in calls for greater domestic surveillance practices and powers. There have been others in many parts of the world in recent years. Thus, in this section we call for proposals to submit Dialogue pieces to the journal that reflect on, unpack, or critique how domestic state surveillance powers have been affected by domestic terrorism concerns in countries around the world (especially those related to white supremacy and nationalism), how surveillance studies research might inform the path forward, and (where relevant) how a surveillant focus on white nationalists and domestic terrorism might also negatively impact communities of color, exacerbate inequalities, and/or promote discrimination. Specifically, we are looking for short contributions that answer (some of) these questions and, in the process, also critically examine the role that such surveillance may play in societies around the globe and suggest ideas, theories, or methods to approach surveillance studies research in the future. We are hoping to curate a small set of papers from scholars in various parts of the world, including in the Global South and areas not as commonly the focus of surveillance studies research. As such, we will prioritize submissions against those criteria, in addition to excellence and fit with the full set of accepted papers. If you are interested in proposing a short paper for inclusion in this discussion, please send the following to me on or before the end of day on Feb. 28, 2021 (to bcnewell(a)uoregon.edu<mailto:bcnewell@uoregon.edu>): * Your name * Details of your institutional affiliation (if applicable) * Link to your online profile, website, etc. with list of your publications (if available) * A title and 300-400 word abstract for your proposed contribution (proposals should connect to the themes identified above and also have a strong normative/critical/argumentative element) Please note that Dialogue pieces are not refereed, but are subject to editorial review and, if (tentatively) accepted, possible requests for revision. Depending on time constraints, we also hope to allow authors of accepted papers the chance to read and engage with the other accepted papers prior to publication, to create a real dialogue within the section. We will only be selecting a small number of pieces for inclusion in this special section. Our recent Dialogue sections have focused on Surveillance and the COVID-19 Pandemic (coming in March!), Surveillance as Evidence<https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/issue/vie…>, The State of Sousveillance<https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/issue/vie…>, and Decolonizing Surveillance Studies<https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/issue/vie…>. I look forward to reading your proposals. Bryce C. Newell, PhD, JD Assistant Professor of Media Law and Policy School of Journalism and Communication Faculty Affiliate, Center for Cyber Security and Privacy (CCSP) University of Oregon Dialogue Editor, Surveillance & Society<https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society> New books: Police Visibility: Privacy, Surveillance, and the False Promise of Body-Worn Cameras<https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520382909/police-visibility> (University of California Press, 2021) Police on Camera: Surveillance, Privacy, and Accountability<https://www.routledge.com/Police-on-Camera-Surveillance-Privacy-and-Account…> (Routledge, 2021)

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