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Job opening at the Center for Democracy & Technology: Research Fellowship in Explainable AI
by Dhanaraj Thakur 09 Mar '21

09 Mar '21

Hello everyone, We have a job opening at the Center for Democracy & Technology <https://cdt.org/> for a Research Fellow <https://cdt.org/job/cdt-research-fellow/> to work on several projects including explainable AI in online content moderation (this is a revision of a previously posted position). This is a great opportunity to use research to inform policy advocacy efforts in the US and EU. Please share with relevant colleagues. I am also happy to answer questions from interested applicants. Ideally applicants will have a PhD or similar research qualification and experience in a relevant discipline. This is a one-year full-time Fellowship, with the possibility of renewal for another year based on performance and availability of funds. Funding is available for approved research expenses associated with the Fellow’s project. We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis and interested persons are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. The position is based at CDT’s Washington, D.C. office (with remote work currently in effect due to COVID-19). Further details and application instructions are here <https://cdt.org/job/cdt-research-fellow/>. thanks, Dhanaraj -- *Dhanaraj Thakur* (he/him) | Research Director Center for Democracy & Technology |*cdt.org <https://cdt.org/>* *E:* dthakur(a)cdt.org <mailto:dthakur@cdt.org> | *P:* +1 202 407 8849 | @thakurdhanaraj

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WEBCAST TODAY: When the Web Goes Dark: State Control & the Internet
by Joly MacFie 09 Mar '21

09 Mar '21

ISOC CEO Andrew Sullivan has been quite vocal on this topic, for example https://youtu.be/HlDa2jzdnnY, and we have a new tracking tool https://pulse.internetsociety.org/shutdowns ISOC Live posted: "Today, Tuesday March 9 2021, at 12pm EST (17:00 UTC) Aspen Digital hosts a webinar 'When the Web Goes Dark: State Control & the Internet'. Autocrats around the world are manipulating access to the internet as a means of state control, especially in th" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/aspenshutdowns>Today, *Tuesday March 9 2021*, at *12pm EST* (17:00 UTC) *Aspen Digital <https://www.aspeninstitute.org/programs/aspendigital/>* hosts a webinar '*When the Web Goes Dark: State Control & the Internet <https://www.aspeninstitute.org/events/when-the-web-goes-dark-state-control-…>*'. Autocrats around the world are manipulating access to the internet as a means of state control, especially in the face of protests and dissent. >From Myanmar to Venezuela to Iran, we’ve seen a rise in blackouts cutting off critical channels of communication, an increasingly dangerous prospect in the middle of a pandemic. This public program will feature experts in human rights, technology, and cyber access to understand the implications of blocking freedom of information, and what can be done about it. *SPEAKERS* *Felicia Anthonio*, Campaigner, Access Now *Shayna Bauchner*, Researcher, Asia Division, Human Rights Watch *Sophie Schmidt*, Founder & CEO, Rest of World *Adrian Shahbaz*, Director, Technology and Democracy, Freedom House *MODERATOR* *Vivian Schiller*, Executive Director, Aspen Digital. *L**LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/aspenshutdowns <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/aspenshutdowns>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/38kCqbe <https://bit.ly/38kCqbe>* *REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/2OgrBAb <https://bit.ly/2OgrBAb>* *TWITTER* *#shutdowns @AspenDigital <https://bit.ly/3kXyXoh> @FelAnthonio @AccessNow Shayna Bauchner @hrw Sophie Schmidt @restofworld @adrianshahbaz @freedomhouse @vivian @AspenInstitute #KeepItOn* *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/aspenshutdowns <https://archive.org/details/aspenshutdowns>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/13843/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Two fully paid PhD positions at the University of Stavanger
by Raul Ferrer Conill 09 Mar '21

09 Mar '21

Come work with us (or send us your master's students)! We are looking for two PhD students within Media and Communication and Journalism. These are two paid positions for a 3+1 years within the project "The Datafication of Communicative Power" financed by the Research Council of Norway and run at the University of Stavanger. We are looking for candidates interested in digital infrastructures and datafication processes. If you know potential candidates that might be interested, please, let them know! https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/200774/phd-fellowship-in-med… https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/200629/phd-fellow-in-media-a… All the best! /Raul Raul Ferrer-Conill | Assistant Professor Media & Communication Studies | Karlstad University Office: 12C 401a Tel: +46 540 700 1426 | Mobile: +46 707 407 417 E-mail: raul.ferrer(a)kau.se https://www.kau.se/forskare/raul-ferrer-conill I work weird hours. Please, reply to this email when it best fits YOUR schedule. Latest publications: Ferrer-Conill, R., Knudsen, E., Lauerer, C., & Barnoy, A. (2020). The visual boundaries of journalism. Native advertising and the convergence of editorial and commercial content. Digital Journalism. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2020.1836980 Ferrer-Conill, R., Foxman, M., Jones, J., Sihvonen, T., & Siitonen, M. (2020). Playful approaches to news engagement. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856520923964<https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1354856520923964> Steensen, S., Ferrer-Conill, R., & Peters, C. (2020). (Against a) Theory of Audience Engagement with the News. Journalism Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2020.1788414 Wheatley, D. & Ferrer-Conill, R. (2020). The temporal nature of mobile push notification alerts: A study of European news outlets' dissemination patterns. Digital Journalism. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2020.1799425 Cheruiyot, D., & Ferrer-Conill, R. (2020). Pathway outta pigeonhole? De-contextualizing Majority World Countries. Media, Culture & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443720960907 N?r du skickar e-post till Karlstads universitet behandlar vi dina personuppgifter<https://www.kau.se/gdpr>. When you send an e-mail to Karlstad University, we will process your personal data<https://www.kau.se/en/gdpr>.

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Second Call for Papers ExUM@UMAP 2021
by Oana Inel 08 Mar '21

08 Mar '21

*** Apologies for cross postings *** ExUM Workshop @UMAP 2021 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop on Explainable User Models and Personalised Systems (ExUM@UMAP 2021) June 21-25, 2020 co-located with UMAP 2021 (https://www.um.org/umap2021/) - Online from Utrecht, the Netherlands Twitter: https://twitter.com/ExUM_Workshop Web: http://www.di.uniba.it/~swap/exum/ Submission: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=acmumap2021# (select "Workshop-ExUM") For any information: cataldo.musto(a)uniba.it<mailto:cataldo.musto@uniba.it>, marco.polignano(a)uniba.it<mailto:marco.polignano@uniba.it> ================ IMPORTANT DATES =============== * Full paper submission: March 26, 2021 * Paper notification: April 19, 2021 * Camera-ready paper: May 7, 2021 ======================== COVID-19 STATUS - UPDATE ======================== The 29th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization will be a virtual conference. We are still figuring out all the details, which we hope to announce bit by bit during the next couple of months. Stay tuned for further updates. ========= ABSTRACT ========= Adaptive and personalized systems have become pervasive technologies which are gradually playing an increasingly important role in our daily lives. Indeed, we are now used to interact every day with algorithms that help us in several scenarios, ranging from services that suggest us music to be listened to or movies to be watched, to personal assistants able to proactively support us in complex decision-making tasks. As the importance of such technologies in our everyday lives grows, it is fundamental that the internal mechanisms that guide these algorithms are as clear as possible. It is not by chance that the recent General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) emphasized the users’ right to explanation when people face machine learning-based (or more in general - artificial intelligence-based) systems. Unfortunately, the current research tends to go in the opposite direction, since most of the approaches try to maximize the effectiveness of the personalization strategy (e.g., recommendation accuracy) at the expense of the explainability and the transparency of the model. The main research questions which arise from this scenario is simple and straightforward: how can we deal with such a dichotomy between the need for effective adaptive systems and the right to transparency and interpretability? Several research lines are triggered by this question: building scrutable user models and transparent al-gorithms, analyzing the impact of opaque algorithms on final users, studying the role of explanation strategies, investigating how to provide users with more control in the personalization and adaptation problems. The workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing such problems, challenges and innovative re-search approaches in the area, by investigating the role of transparency and explainability on the re-cent methodologies for building user models or for developing personalized and adaptive systems. ====== TOPICS ====== Topics of interests include but are not limited to: - TRANSPARENT AND EXPLAINABLE PERSONALIZATION STRATEGIES - Scrutable User Models - Transparent User Profiling and Personal Data Extraction - Explainable Personalization and Adaptation Methodologies - Novel strategies (e.g., conversational recommender systems) for building transparent algorithms - DESIGNING EXPLANATION ALGORITHMS - Explanation algorithms based on item description and item properties - Explanation algorithms based on user-generated content (e.g., reviews) - Explanation algorithms based on collaborative information - Building explanation algorithms for opaque personalization techniques (e.g., neural networks, matrix factorization) - DESIGNING TRANSPARENT AND EXPLAINABLE USER INTERFACES - Transparent User Interfaces - Designing Transparent Interaction methodologies - Novel paradigms (e.g. chatbots) for building transparent models - EVALUATING TRANSPARENCY AND EXPLAINABILITY - Evaluating Transparency in interaction or personalization - Evaluating Explainability of the algorithms - Designing User Studies for evaluating transparency and explainability - Novel metrics and experimental protocols - OPEN ISSUES IN TRANSPARENT AND EXPLAINABLE USER MODELS AND PERSONALIZED SYSTEMS - Ethical issues (Fairness and Biases) in User Models and Personalized Systems - Privacy management of Personal and Social data - Discussing Recent Regulations (GDPR) and future directions ============ SUBMISSIONS ============ We encourage the submission of original contributions, investigating novel methodologies to exploit heterogeneous personal data and approach to build transparent and scrutable user models. (A) Regular papers (max. 10 pages + references - single-column ACM format); (B) Demo and Position Papers (max. 5 pages + references - ACM format); Submission site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=acmumap2021# (select "Workshop-ExUM") All submitted papers will be evaluated by at least two members of the program committee, based on originality, significance, relevance and technical quality. Note that the references do not count towards page limits. Submissions should be single blinded, i.e. authors names should be included in the submissions. Papers must be formatted according to the new workflow for ACM publications. The templates and instructions are available here: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow. Authors should submit their papers as single-column. The templates are available here (we strongly recommend the usage of LaTeX for the camera-ready papers to minimize the extent of reformatting): * LaTeX (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} in the sample-authordraft.tex file for single-column): https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/consolidated-tex-t… * Overleaf (use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for single-column): https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acm-conference-proceedings-master-… * MS Word: https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submissio… Submissions must be made through the EasyChair conference system prior the specified deadline (AoE). All accepted papers will be published by ACM as a joint volume of Extended UMAP 2021 Proceedings and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the particular workshop and present the paper there. ============= ORGANIZATION ============= Cataldo Musto - University of Bari, Italy Nava Tintarev - Maastricht University, The Netherlands Oana Inel - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Marco Polignano - University of Bari, Italy Giovanni Semeraro - University of Bari, Italy Juergen Ziegler - University of Duisburg Essen

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Registration Open – Current Trends in Digital East Asian Studies (Virtual Event)
by Spence, Paul 08 Mar '21

08 Mar '21

[With apologies for cross-posting] Registration Open – Current Trends in Digital East Asian Studies, Wednesday 31 March 2021, 9-11am (BST) https://digitalmodernlanguages.wordpress.com/2021/03/03/current-trends-in-d…<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdigitalmo…> Research in Digital East Asian Studies has grown in scale and visibility in recent years, reflecting both the establishment of digital humanities initiatives in the region and increasing awareness of the limitations of digital tools developed in an anglophone context. Whether historic or contemporary, this research has to address a unique set of circumstances including the digitisation and OCR challenges presented by non-Latin scripts more broadly, different encoding standards, uneven availability of digital datasets/corpora, regional differences in how digital research is articulated, and variation in institutional embeddings for East Asian studies outside of the region. The field draws on a complex array of transdisciplinary, cross-regional and multilingual approaches which may be difficult to distil succinctly, but which offer an important counterpoint to anglophone digital research. In this panel, four leading scholars in East Asian studies offer their perspectives on a range of questions, including the following: * What have been the main scholarly achievements of digital East Asian studies in recent years? * What are the key social, technical and/or epistemological challenges for the field right now? * How do the different regional interpretations of ‘digital humanities/digital studies’ in the region, and the different institutional embeddings of ‘East Asian studies’ outside the region facilitate or complicate collaborative research on this topic? * To what extent are East Asian languages and scripts served by existing digital infrastructures, international standards and supposedly ‘language-neutral’ digital methods, and to what extent is a regional/localised approach necessary? * How should digital methods in East Asian studies be taught? What examples of best practice exist currently, and how do they combine the study of language and culture? Registration is free but please book in advance at the following link to be given access to the seminar: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/24079<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmodernlan…> Speakers: CJ Chen (Nanjing University) Hilde De Weerdt (Leiden University) Lik Hang Tsui (City University of Hong Kong) Kiyonori Nagasaki (International Institute for Digital Humanities, Tokyo) This series is part of the AHRC-funded Open World Research Initiative, and is supported by OWRI projects Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community and Language Acts and Worldmaking projects, and by the AHRC Leadership Fellow for Modern Languages (Janice Carruthers). The series is convened by Paul Spence (King’s College London) and Naomi Wells (Institute of Modern Languages Research). Regards Paul Spence (King’s College London) and Naomi Wells (Institute of Modern Languages Research) ------------ Paul Spence Senior Lecturer, Department of Digital Humanities King's College London | Strand | London | WC2R 2LS About: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/person.aspx?id=86f6979a-0322-46d3-996b-77323ee… Twitter: @politonaiz

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Looking for a Ph.D. position in telecommunications
by Astvansh, Vivek 08 Mar '21

08 Mar '21

Dear Internet Researchers: If you are aware of any professor/department/center hiring a Ph.D. student in telecommunications or related areas of research, please consider responding. Thank you!

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Assistant Professor Position in Digital Communication (Tenure Track) at BI Norwegian Business School (Oslo)
by Christoph Lutz 08 Mar '21

08 Mar '21

Dear Subscribers to the AoIR mailing list, There is a job opening that might be interesting to some of you. The Department of Communication and Culture at BI Norwegian Business School (Oslo, Norway) invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in digital communication. The position will be associated with the Department's Nordic Centre for Internet and Society ([1]https://www.bi.edu/research/research-centres/nordic-centre-for-inte rnet-and-society/) and the succesful candidate is expected to conduct research in the field of communication, with a particular focus on digital communication, teach at Bachelor and Master level (the teaching load for assistant professors is 1 course per semester), and engage in relevant service activities. Deadline for the application is 30 April 2021, 23:59 (CET). The role is supposed to be filled in 2021. Applications should be submitted through the submission form at the following link: [2]https://bi.easycruit.com/vacancy/2660727/45435 The link also contains more information about the application materials to be submitted, the requirements, and the employment conditions. Best regards, Christoph Dr. Christoph Lutz Associate Professor christoph.lutz(a)bi.no [3]Nordic Centre for Internet & Society [4]Department of Communication and Culture [5]BI Norwegian Business School References 1. https://www.bi.edu/research/research-centres/nordic-centre-for-internet-and… 2. https://bi.easycruit.com/vacancy/2660727/45435 3. http://www.bi.edu/ncis 4. https://www.bi.edu/research/find-departments-and-research-centres/departmen… 5. http://www.bi.edu/

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Data Feminism: A Talk with Catherine D'Ignazio & Lauren Klein, Wed 17th March, 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM (UK)
by Gray, Jonathan 08 Mar '21

08 Mar '21

In case any of you or your students could be interested in joining, King’s College London is hosting a virtual talk with Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein on their Data Feminism book, Wed 17th March, 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM (UK). Further details copied below. Please feel free to forward to those who might be interested! ## DATA FEMINISM: A Talk with Catherine D'Ignazio & Lauren Klein ## When? Wed 17th March, 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM (UK) ## Registration: http://data-feminism-launch.eventbrite.co.uk/ ## Book: http://datafeminism.io/ As data are increasingly mobilized in the service of governments and corporations, their unequal conditions of production, their asymmetrical methods of application, and their unequal effects on both individuals and groups have become increasingly difficult for data scientists--and others who rely on data in their work--to ignore. But it is precisely this power that makes it worth asking: "Data science by whom? Data science for whom? Data science with whose interests in mind?" These are some of the questions that emerge from what we call data feminism, a way of thinking about data science and its communication that is informed by the past several decades of intersectional feminist activism and critical thought. Illustrating data feminism in action, this talk will show how challenges to the male/female binary can help to challenge other hierarchical (and empirically wrong) classification systems; it will explain how an understanding of emotion can expand our ideas about effective data visualization; how the concept of invisible labor can expose the significant human efforts required by our automated systems; and why the data never, ever “speak for themselves.” The goal of this talk, as with the project of data feminism, is to model how scholarship can be transformed into action: how feminist thinking can be operationalized in order to imagine more ethical and equitable data practices. DDH and Informatics are taking the Data Feminism book as an opportunity to explore broader collaborations between students and staff in our respective departments around how feminist perspectives can enrich our work with and about data. Students and staff in attendance will be invited to continue conversations, activities and exploring possible collaborations after the event. All are welcome to join this event. Registration for guests who are not students or staff at King’s will close 24 hours before the event to so that they can be added to the live streaming system in advance. Event Format: 30 min book talk + 30 min Q&A. Catherine D'Ignazio Catherine D’Ignazio is a scholar, artist/designer and hacker mama who focuses on feminist technology, data literacy and civic engagement. She has run reproductive justice hackathons<https://kanarinka.github.io/makethebreastpumpnotsuck/>, designed global news recommendation systems, created talking and tweeting water quality sculptures, and led walking data visualizations to envision the future of sea level rise. With Rahul Bhargava, she built the platform Databasic.io<https://databasic.io/en/>, a suite of tools and activities to introduce newcomers to data science. Her 2020 book from MIT Press, Data Feminism, co-authored with Lauren Klein, charts a course for more ethical and empowering data science practices. Her research at the intersection of technology, design & social justice has been published in the Journal of Peer Production, the Journal of Community Informatics, and the proceedings of Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM SIGCHI). Her art and design projects have won awards from the Tanne Foundation, Turbulence.org<http://turbulence.org/> and the Knight Foundation and exhibited at the Venice Biennial and the ICA Boston. D’Ignazio is an Assistant Professor of Urban Science and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. She is also Director of the Data + Feminism Lab which uses data and computational methods to work towards gender and racial equity, particularly in relation to space and place. Lauren Klein Lauren Klein is an associate professor in the departments of English and Quantitative Theory & Methods at Emory University, where she also directs the Digital Humanities Lab<https://dhlab.lmc.gatech.edu/>. Before moving to Emory, she taught in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech. Klein works at the intersection of digital humanities, data science, and early American literature, with a research focus on issues of gender and race. She has designed platforms for exploring the contents of historical newspapers<https://dh2018.adho.org/tome-a-topic-modeling-tool-for-document-discovery-a…>, modeled the invisible labor of women abolitionists<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RvcTMegIw0sd9qV4XAIrU83Ud5558CSR/view>, and recreated forgotten visualization schemes with fabric and addressable LEDs<https://dhlab.lmc.gatech.edu/category/floorchart/>. In 2017, she was named one of the “rising stars in digital humanities<https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2017/08/02/rising-s…>” by Inside Higher Ed. She is the author of An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States<https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/an-archive-of-taste> (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) and, with Catherine D’Ignazio, Data Feminism<http://datafeminism.io/> (MIT Press, 2020). With Matthew K. Gold, she edits Debates in the Digital Humanities<https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/>, a hybrid print-digital publication stream that explores debates in the field as they emerge. Her current project, Data by Design: An Interactive History of Data Visualization, 1786-1900<http://dataxdesign.io/>, was recently funded by an NEH-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication. Organizers: Hana Kopecka, Yiwen Xing, Alfie Abdul-Rahman, Jonathan Gray, Victoria Baines, Marielle Düh. This is a joint event organised by the Department of Informatics<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/informatics> and the Department of Digital Humanities (DDH)<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh> at King's College London. It is part of the Informatics Women in Science Seminar Series and the DDH Public Seminar Series on "critical inquiry with and about the digital"<https://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/ddh/events/> (which previously hosted a talk on the book before it was published, in May 2018). -- Jonathan Gray | jonathangray.org<http://jonathangray.org/> | @jwyg<http://twitter.com/jwyg> Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure Studies Department of Digital Humanities King’s College London Co-Founder, Public Data Lab<http://publicdatalab.org/> Recent publications (more here<https://jonathangray.org/publications/>): * Bounegru, L. & Gray, J. (eds.) (forthcoming 2021) The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice<https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789462989511/the-data-journalism-handbook>. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. * Gray, J. (2020) “The Datafication of Forests? From the Wood Wide Web to the Internet of Trees.”<https://jonathangray.org/2020/05/22/critical-zones-exhibition/> In Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel (eds.) Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth<https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/critical-zones>. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. * Eve, M. & Gray, J. (eds.) (2020) Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access<https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/reassembling-scholarly-communications>. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ✨Open access chapters available here<https://jonathangray.org/2020/10/20/new-book-reassembling-scholarly-communi…> ✨ * Gray, J. (2020) “The Data Epic: Visualisation Practices for Narrating Life and Death at a Distance”<http://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvzgb8c7.25> in H. Kennedy and M. Engebretsen (eds) Data Visualization in Society<https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463722902/data-visualization-in-society>. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. * Gray, J., Bounegru, L. & Venturini, T. (2020) ‘Fake news’ as infrastructural uncanny<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444819856912>. New Media & Society. * Gray, J. (2019). Data Witnessing: Attending to Injustice with Data in Amnesty International’s Decoders Project<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2019.1573915>. Information, Communication & Society.

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Call for contributions; Sex on Stage
by Feona Attwood 08 Mar '21

08 Mar '21

Now accepting proposals for critical essays, memoir, interviews, creative mixed genre pieces…. Sex on Stage; Writing the Body Politic edited by Feona Attwood, Alison J Carr and Lynn Sally Sex on Stage explores staging(s) of sex on multiple levels: as performances of the sexed body and of multiple genders, as expressions of sexual identity and desire; and as part of the shifting cultural repertoires of sex which encompass both intimate acts and and public displays. From burlesque to drag to porn and pop stars, these performances push against decorums of respectability, instead flaunting the body to shock, entertain, tell stories, and express a new kind of gender expression. Proposals due; 4.1.21 Manuscripts due; 15.10.21 Email: sexonstagebook(a)gmail.com <mailto:sexonstagebook@gmail.com>

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Nominations open 11 March 2021 for AoIR Exec Committee
by Michelle, Association of Internet Researchers 08 Mar '21

08 Mar '21

Hello AoIR-istas, I am happy to announce that on 11 March 2021, AoIR will open your nominations for the new Executive Committee, to take office in October of this year and serve until October 2023. Below, you will find: a) a timeframe for the election, b) a description of the AoIR governance system and of the elected positions, c) our nominations and elections processes, and d) some key questions for candidates. * A. Timeframe of the Election:* 1. The call for nominations opens on 11 March 2021 and will remain open for fifteen (15) days. 2. Nominations for all positions close on 26 March 2021. 3. Candidates will be listed on aoir.org and further information will be made available on our membership system, where discussion fora will let you ask questions of the candidates. 4. Voting begins on 22 April 2021 at our online balloting site and will remain open for ten (10) days. (Details for accessing this site will be sent in a later message through our membership system.) 5. Voting ends on 1 May 2021, expiring at 12:00 noon, U.S. Eastern Time in the State of Delaware. Election results will be announced on the AoIR blog and air-list serv. The new Executive Committee is formally introduced and assumes its duties during the Annual General Meeting available via Zoom during the AoIR conference October 2021. More information about our election processes can be found in the AoIR Bylaws: https://aoir.org/bylaws/ Candidates should familiarize themselves with the duties laid out in the Bylaws. I also encourage persons interested in running for a specific position to contact me or any of the current office-holder(s) with any questions. Please also note that the position of Treasurer, in particular, requires a very specific skillset, which is outlined at https://aoir.org/aoirtreasurer/. Prospective candidates for Treasurer should reflect carefully on whether they have these skills. *B. AoIR Governance and Description of Elected Positions:* The organizational structure of AoIR is simple. There are 5 officers (President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Graduate Student representative). The 9-member Executive Committee consists of these officers, plus the Past President and 3 Open Seat representatives. Elected officials hold their positions for two years. After two years, the Vice President becomes President. Nominations are invited for Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Graduate Student representative, and 3 Open Seats. You may nominate yourself or someone else you think would do a good job. Details on the nomination procedure follow below. Duties of the President: Article 4/Section 6 of AoIR's bylaws. Duties of the Vice President: Article 4/Section 7 of AoIR's bylaws. Duties of the Secretary: Article 4/Section 8 of AoIR's bylaws. Duties of the Treasurer: Article 4/Section 9 of AoIR's bylaws. Duties of the Graduate Student Representative: Article 4/Section 10 of AoIR's bylaws. Duties of Open Seat representatives: Represent the membership of AoIR, and contribute to decision-making. Members of the Executive have their membership fees waived for the duration of their term, and pay a reduced conference registration fee. *C. Nominations and Elections Processes:* Only current members of AoIR can run for a position. They may be nominated by anyone, including themselves. If nominated for more than one position, a nominee must choose to run for one (and only one) position in this election. You may nominate yourself or others. If nominating someone else, confirm with that person that they are willing to run, and eligible to do so. Self-Nominations: Email AoIR Association Coordinator Michelle at <ac at aoir dot org> and indicate the position for which you are nominating yourself. Please provide in your nomination email a short candidate statement addressing the questions below. Nominating Others: Email AoIR Association Coordinator Michelle at <ac at aoir dot org> with the name of the person you want to nominate, the position for which you are nominating this person, contact information for the person, and an indication of whether you know if this person would accept this nomination. (If you don't know, we'll contact them and ask.) All candidates for election will be required to provide answers to the questions listed below, have the answers posted to the AoIR election forum, and participate in an online candidate forum. In addition, the Graduate Student candidates must confirm in their response that they comply with the by-laws: the Graduate Student Representative must be actively enrolled in a degree program at the time of nomination and election. Further, because of the specific legal duties and skills requirements for the position of Treasurer, candidates for this position should demonstrate experience with budget management and familiarity with U.S. tax law. Treasurer candidates should provide a detailed statement on their ability to meet the requirements of that role, as outlined at https://aoir.org/aoirtreasurer/. The voting system used by AoIR allows one vote per member for each of the elected positions listed above. Votes will be tallied using a balloting software. In the case of the four directly elected officers, the candidate with the highest number of votes shall be declared the winner; in the case of the Open Seats, the candidates with the highest, second-highest, and third-highest votes shall be declared the three winners of the Open Seats. In the case of tied results for the officer positions, the winner shall be determined by the ballot counters, by drawing of lots, using a method that ensures each of the tying candidates has an equal chance of success and witnessed by at least 1 person independent of the association. In the case of tied results for the open seat positions, the drawing of lots shall be used only when there are more tied candidates than seats available. *D. Questions for Candidates (these questions must be answered in your nomination email):* 1. What are your qualifications for this position (including prior experience and participation in AoIR)? 2. Please describe two or three short-term goals you would like to achieve through membership on the executive (including a rationale for each and how you would contribute to their achievement). 3. What is your long-term vision for AoIR? 4. What else should voters consider when deciding on whether or not to vote for you? In answering the questions, please be concise and give information specific to the position for which you are nominating, to enable voters to assess your case for election to that position. Candidates for Treasurer should also address the further specific requirements for that position: https://aoir.org/aoirtreasurer/. I sincerely hope that you will consider running, or nominating someone who you think would help advance AoIR and its community of Internet scholars. Many thanks in advance to those willing to serve! Lynn Schofield Clark President, Association of Internet Researchers

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