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Climate Fiction: Special issue of Exchanges journal now live
by Johnson, Gareth 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

Hi Everyone, Delighted to announce that our latest volume of the Exchanges interdisciplinary journal, a special issue inspired by talks at the 20th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society, is now live. https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v8i2 --- This is the seventeenth issue of Exchanges (ISSN: 2053-9665), published in February 2020. This special issue brings an assortment of articles, reflections and discussions to our interdisciplinary readership, this time deriving from or inspired by the 20th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society, hosted in Prato, Italy. Articles in this issue tackle topics as varied as: critiquing the conference itself, ecotopianism, literary and movie depictions of anthropogenic climate change, activism, behavioural and societal changes, as well as speculations on the global legacy of the current epoch. The issue also highlights the work of the journal’s post-graduate researcher associate editors programme, and the currently open calls for contributions. --- My thanks to all the contributors, reviewers and editorial team who helped bring this issue together. Best wishes Gareth --- Dr Gareth (Gaz) J Johnson Managing Editor-in-Chief, Exchanges Journal Room C0.10, Institute of Advanced Study, Zeeman Building, University of Warwick https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias/ T: 024 765 7443 (extn 74423) E: gareth.johnson(a)warwick.ac.uk<mailto:gareth.johnson@warwick.ac.uk> B: https://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/exchangesias/ Tw:@ExchangesIAS<https://twitter.com/ExchangesIAS> P: https://anchor.fm/exchangesias

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Stephen Coleman: How People Talk About Politics | Media, Communication & Politics Seminar Series at the University of Liverpool
by Patricia Rossini 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

Dear colleagues, The Media, Communication and Politics Research Seminar Series, hosted by the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool, is proud to host Prof. Stephen Coleman to talk about how people experience political discussions about contentious issues and how our society can begin to develop a more constructive culture of political talk. The talk is on February 18, at 4pm GMT (11am EST / 5pm CET) You can sign up for the link here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-people-talk-about-politics-professor-steph… <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-people-talk-about-politics-professor-steph…> Summary: Stephen Coleman has been exploring how people experience political talk. How do people know political talk when they encounter it? What is it about political talk that so commonly evokes feelings of strangeness, anxiety and confusion? What goes on in people’s minds and bodies when they find themselves performing political talk? Upon which cultural sources do people draw when they come to formulate the words and sounds of political enunciation? How might contemporary democracies nurture skills of confident political expression? Bio: Stephen Coleman is Professor of Political Communication at the University of Leeds, His most recent books are How People Talk About Politics: Brexit and After (Bloomsbury, 2020), with Jim Brogden: Capturing the Mood of Democracy; the British General Election 2019 (Palgrave, 2020), Can the Internet Strengthen Democracy? (Polity Press, 2017) and How Voters Feel, (Cambridge University Press, 2013). I’m looking forward to seeing you there! Best wishes, Patrícia Dr Patrícia Rossini Derby Fellow Department of Communication and Media School of the Arts University of Liverpool @: patricia.rossini(a)liverpool.ac.uk <mailto:patricia.rossini@liverpool.ac.uk> W: patriciarossini.com <http://www.patriciarossini.com/>

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ACM WebSci'21 | CfP Abstracts deadline this Friday 12 February
by Weller, Katrin 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

***apologies if you receive this more than once*** WebSci'21 | 13th ACM Web Science Conference Globalisation, Inclusion and the Web in the Context of COVID 21-25 June 2021 Hosted by the University of Southampton, UK, delivered online https://websci21.webscience.org/<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwebsci21.…> Important dates for Call for Papers Feb. 12, 2021 Abstract Submission Deadline Feb. 19, 2021 Paper submission deadline April 9, 2021 Notification May 10, 2021 Camera-ready versions due June 21-25 Conference dates Please note that all contributors are required to submit an abstract (max 400 words) followed by a full paper. Full details of the submission process are on the Call for Papers<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwebsci21.…> page on the conference website. Submission is via EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=websci21<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair…> Best wishes _______________________________________________ Clare Hooper, Matthew Weber, Katrin Weller (Program Chairs) websci21(a)easychair.org<mailto:websci21@easychair.org>

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CfP: "Algorithmic Antagonisms: Resistance, Reconfiguration, and Renaissance for Computational Life"
by Luke H 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

Apologies for any cross-posting; please send abstracts to editors by 28th of February Algorithmic Antagonisms:  Resistance, Reconfiguration, and Renaissance for Computational Life Call for Papers for Special Issue – Media International Australia (Q1 Scimago) https://journals.sagepub.com/home/mia In August 2020, the UK government’s black-boxed algorithm for deciding students’ grades made headlines. It had allegedly lowered the results of 40% of students, most of which from lower-income schools, thus crushing many students’ hopes for entering prestigious universities. Students went out to the streets and protested, memorably chanting “Fuck the algorithm!”. This recent case is just one of many that highlight a clear need for critical and empirical attention on algorithms and the work that they do, given their increasing importance in shaping social and economic life. There has been important work through critical studies that catalogue the multifaceted domination of algorithmic life and points of liberatory design out of it (Eubanks 2018, Costanza-Chock 2020), while recognising epistemological cleavages between powers of critique and scientific practice (Moats and Seaver 2019) in the seemingly impenetrable nature of “black boxed” algorithmic life (Pasquale 2015). Much critical scholarship tied to algorithms focuses on the ills of algorithms, or the ways in which a normativity can be developed around an ethical, equitable or fair expression of computation via design (see ACM FAccT). Other responses include consideration of critical practices that advance data science in ways that identify and create social and organizational arrangements necessary for a more ethical data science (Neff et al. 2017) or move towards data justice (Dencik et al. 2019, Taylor 2017, Johnson 2014) to offer equity as design goals. Yet Critical Data Practices are also taking an antagonistic turn, focussing on ways to actively employ algorithms for everyday, social, and political agency, influence, or resistance. This turn adjusts to reframe algorithms from governing black boxes to deployed tools that ‘mediate emerging distributions of power often too nascent [or] disconcerting to directly acknowledge’ (Thomas et al. 2018: 1). It considers posthumanist assemblages of humans, code, and technological artefacts that shape reality (Kalpokas 2019), but also includes what is missing from previous theorisation of algorithms – namely moving past acknowledging various normative relations to enabling a tactical use (Raley 2009). That is to say, lessons from tactical media seem to be more applicable than ever in constantly shifting datalogical ground (Treré 2018; Velkova and Kaun 2019). To this end, this issue in part considers how critical histories of tactical media juxtapose structures of algorithmic life, and what might be done to leverage what was once dark towards antagonistic algorithmic light (Ochigame, 2020). Emergent examples reconfigure algorithms into networked media tools that act as vanguards against extant structures, with equity as a secondary concern. Algorithms are being deployed to radical and subversive action including automatically suing robocallers and contesting civil fines (DoNotPay); war crimes investigation via computer vision (VFrame, Forensic Architecture); gaming Google’s AdWords to point to sex-worker chat bots (Seattle Against Slavery); writing to MIDI all possible melodies and ‘releasing’ these through Creative Commons; or simply actively messing with Facebook’s feedback mechanisms to alter newsfeeds. Hence, this issue asks: what are the ways in which algorithms are being deployed tactically to provocative ends? And, just as importantly, are these sustainable as activist or political practice? This issue will consider these trends and surrounding issues in order to introduce new ways of thinking about algorithmic politics in tactical and discrete terms. It hopes to open critical data and algorithm studies in ways that might reconfigure how critical scholarship approaches the algorithm in tactical terms as networked media tools that are antagonistic. We ask for submissions that consider the design of algorithms not as finished solutions that structure the world, but as something troubling - in a meaningful and helpful way - that might better inform our understanding of the capacities and limits of algorithmic life. We are particularly looking forward to critical engagements with algorithmic practice, which may include feminist theory, de/post-colonial theory, critical race theory, queer theory, indigenous theory, perspectives from the Global South, and others. The issue looks to submissions including but not limited to... - Agonistic and antagonistic algorithm design - Algorithms as culture (and critical responses to algorithmic culture) - Algorithmic practice of the everyday; - Activist algorithmic science and practice - - Adversarial algorithmic externalities - - Standpoint data justice - Tactical algorithmic media - Forms of algorithmic resistance and antagonistic algorithm design in the Global South - Applied evolutionary computation - Feminist and antirracist algorithmic theory and practice (eg. BFTS) - Disaffected technologies and technologists - Artistic forms of response to algorithmic culture - Antagonism of digital, algorithmic, and tech labourers Timeline 28 February 2021: Abstracts (400-500 words) due for submission to guest editors 21 March 2021: Invitation to submit full papers sent to selected authors, with feedback on abstracts as applicable 31 July 2021: Full papers sent by authors for Peer Review 15 October 2021: Peer review returned to authors (Up to) 30 Jan 2021: Final papers due for those papers that have passed/responded to review. May 2022: Special Issue comes out on MIA Editors: Luke Heemsbergen (luke.h(a)deakin.edu.au <mailto:luke.h@deakin.edu.au>), Emiliano Treré (TrereE(a)cardiff.ac.uk) & Gabriel Pereira (gpereira(a)cc.au.dk <mailto:gpereira@cc.au.dk>) You can also view the CfP on the Media International Australia site Algorithmic Antagonisms: Resistance, Reconfiguration, and Renaissance for Computational Life <https://journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/Algorithmic%20Antagonisms%20CFP.pdf> CfP art by Gabriel Pereira, inspired by Willys de Castro’s “Pintura M-111” (1956), created with p5.js. References Costanza-Chock, Sasha. (2020) “Design justice”, MIT Press. Dencik, L., Hintz, A., Redden, J., & Treré, E. (2019). Exploring data justice. Eubanks, V. (2018). Automating inequality: How high-tech tools profile, police, and punish the poor. St. Martin’s Press. Johnson, J. A. (2014). From open data to information justice. Ethics and Information Technology, 16(4), 263-274. Kalpokas I. (2019) Agency and the Posthuman Shape of Law. In: Algorithmic Governance. Palgrave Pivot, Cham Moats, D., & Seaver, N. (2019). “You Social Scientists Love Mind Games”: Experimenting in the “divide” between data science and critical algorithm studies. Big Data & Society, 6(1), 2053951719833404. Neff, G., Tanweer, A., Fiore-Gartland, B., & Osburn, L. (2017). Critique and contribute: A practice-based framework for improving critical data studies and data science. Big data, 5(2), 85-97. Ochigame, R. (2020). Informatics of the Oppressed. Logic, 11. Pasquale, F. (2015). The black box society. Harvard University Press. Raley, R. (2009). Tactical media. U of Minnesota Press. Thomas, S. L., Nafus, D., & Sherman, J. (2018). Algorithms as fetish: Faith and possibility in algorithmic work. Big Data & Society, 5(1). Taylor, L. (2017). What is data justice? The case for connecting digital rights and freedoms globally. Big Data & Society, 4(2). Treré, E. (2018). From digital activism to algorithmic resistance. In: Meikle, G. ed. The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 367-375. Velkova, J., & Kaun, A. (2019). Algorithmic resistance: media practices and the politics of repair. Information, Communication & Society, 1-18

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the Obfuscation Workshop is back...
by Seda Guerses 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

Dear Airs, some of you will remember that we had to postpone the Obfuscation Workshop that was supposed to take place at TU Delft last spring. After thinking long and deep about obfuscation, covid and the troubles of going online using cloud services, we decided to explore other ways of gathering and building community. This is an experiment that we hope you will consider joining and thinking with. See details below and please consider distributing to others who may be interested. Warm regards, s. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ========================================== 3rd Workshop on Obfuscation May 4 & 7, 2021. Online gathering http://www.obfuscationworkshop.org Cosponsored by TPM, TU Delft and DLI, Cornell Tech ========================================== In the Spring of 2020, as we were in full force preparing the 3rd Workshop on Obfuscation, COVID-19 was recognized by the World Health Organization as a pandemic, which led us to postpone indefinitely. Today we are pleased to announce that the 3rd Workshop on Obfuscation will finally take place online on May 4 and 7th, 2021. Everyone is welcome to participate, with or without submission. Please visit our website https://www.obfuscationworkshop.org <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.obfuscationworkshop…> to register and for other details! IMPORTANT DATES: ------------------------------- • Registration re-opens on: February 3, 2021 • Submissions due: March 15, 2021 • Notifications: April 1, 2021 • Workshop: May 7, 2021 • A vernissage will take place on May 4, 2021 • Study group meets on: April 30, May 6 and May 19, 2021 Overview and topics: ----------------------------- Obfuscation strategies represent creative ways to evade surveillance, protect privacy, improve security; as well as protest, contest, resist and sabotage technology. Obfuscation methods render data more ambiguous, difficult to exploit and interpret, less useful. They rely on the addition of gibberish, meaningless data; they pollute, add noise, randomize. Obfuscation invokes an intuitive form of protection: it distorts that which is visible to render it less (or in)visible. It hides the trees among the forest. The aim of the 3rd Workshop on Obfuscation is to foster interaction among diverse communities of research, concern and practice interested in obfuscation. We convene researchers, scientists, policy makers, developers, journalists, activists, artists and other interested parties to discuss obfuscation in environments and conditions of asymmetrical power and information. We welcome and value a broad range of approaches, including theories, tools, simulations and experimental methods from diverse disciplines and spheres of practice. The workshop constitutes a wide umbrella welcoming a diverse family of related topics and efforts, including adversarial machine learning, protective optimization technologies (POTs) and obfuscation in behavioral decision-making contexts by humans and artificial agents. We encourage participants to contribute with ideas about how obfuscation may (or may not) serve people in the current context of ever greater power imbalances between people, societal institutions and technology companies. Submission types: -------------------------- • A (short) position paper or extended abstract of your work (this can be work in progress). • A description of an interesting use case to be discussed (this may be an academic or policy/practice-based case). • A description of a demo or prototype (of applications, hardware or other artifacts), performance, artwork (in any media) or journalistic piece relevant to the topic of obfuscation. • A description of a hands-on workshop or other interactive format that engages with obfuscation. We welcome and encourage participants to organize their own session on a topic related to obfuscation. Please provide details on method and logistic needs. Note that we have allocated 1-hour slots for invited sessions; let us know if you need additional time so we can best accommodate your proposal. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by the Workshop’s Organizing Committee and accepted based on relevance and potential to contribute to workshop discussions and goals. The workshop will not publish formal (i.e. archival) proceedings. With authors' permission, accepted submissions will be included in the postscript we plan to release after the workshop. Participate in the 3rd Workshop on Obfuscation Study Group: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite junior researchers, artists, activists and other interested parties to join us in a study group that accompanies the Workshop on Obfuscation. Our goal is to provide an arena for deeper reflection and engagement, a more tight-knit and longer breathed space for collaboration for those interested in obfuscation. The study group will be mentored by leading researchers of obfuscation Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum, as well as other invited artists and researchers. We hope this will provide the basis to collectively engage beyond the ephemeral and rectangled formats of online events. Participation in the study group is preconditioned on a submission. A limited number of places will be allocated based on submission merit. For more details about what you can expect from the study group and a tentative schedule of activities, please visit the study group page on our website. Stipends: --------------- In keeping with the Workshop on Obfuscation tradition of supporting artists and independent researchers, we have a limited number of stipends available. If you are an artist or independent researcher, please make sure your submission includes a funds request (including project description and production budget). We hope to provide stipends for 4-6 projects, with new works receiving €800 max and previosuly-produced works receiving a fixed amount of €400. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: ----------------------------------------- Ero Balsa (Cornell Tech) Seda Gurses (Delft University of Technology) Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell Tech) Jara Rocha (Independent Researcher) For any questions, comments or requests, you can reach us at obfuscation(a)cornell.edu <mailto:obfuscation@cornell.edu>. Please feel encouraged to share this call in your circles. We are looking forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you at the workshop!

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Special Q&A Session with Mark Graham, Director @ Internet Archive | Feb 12th, 12 pm EST
by Ahmed Medien 08 Feb '21

08 Feb '21

Hi everyone, WikiCred Demo Hour is hosting a special Q&A Session with Mark Graham, Director at Internet Archive and the WayBack Machine on Feb 12th EST. This is everything you always wanted to ask about the Internet Archive, and the Wayback Machine, but were too afraid to ask. Mark Graham will give a quick overview of some of the Internet Archive's projects and priorities and engage with questions, suggestions, requests, and constructive criticism about the work of this nearly 25 year old non-profit. Mark is especially interested in learning about how the organization can evolve its services to be of most benefit to more people. In addition to Mark's Q&A, we will host a hands-on demo on how to query bibliographical data from WikiData and extract visual graphics for academic research by Wikipedia editor and WikiData expert Houcemeddine Turki. The call is open to the public, but we require that you sign up on this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEpva_wwZA9xIjtTni7-y0tZ_VgXW8nzV…> in order to receive the Zoom link. Find our agenda here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Blz4OAXypJe8yqMHFt4nQDufan2ZcmTWvHs5uXW…> . *About WikiCred Demo Hour* WikiCred Demo Hour is an initiative of the WikiCredibility Grant Initiative <http://wikicred.org/> which supports wikipedia and wikimedia projects with the goal of strengthening information reliability and credibility on the internet. It is a regular monthly online meetup that brings together members of the Wikimedian community, open-data and open-knowledge enthusiasts, academics, journalists, researchers, and professionals from the online credibility space. Best regards, Ahmed Medien hackshackers.com wikicred.org Partners <https://www.wikicred.org/#who-we-are> / Projects <http://wikicred.org/#projects> / WikiCred Demo Videos <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyA_FVf2mGM&list=PLQO0eq9qkTnNTtk4WIA1cx-5Y…>

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Intergenerational Locative Play: Augmenting Family
by Evans L. 08 Feb '21

08 Feb '21

Dear AoIR colleagues, We wanted to share some information about our new book. Intergenerational Locative Play: Augmenting Family is out today (Emerald Press) by Michael Saker and Leighton Evans and might interest colleagues. Intergenerational Locative Play: Augmenting Family examines the social, spatial and physical impact of the hybrid reality game (HRG) Pokémon Go on the relationship between parents and their children. This is a book that has emerged from our Pokémon Go project (City University and Swansea University) and engages with the role that digital technologies, such as video games, play in the social, cultural and family lives of children and how the intergenerational play of video games can strengthen familial connections by facilitating communication between adults and children, and allowing adolescents to experiment with a range of roles in that play. The longer description can be found on the website, with a free sample of the introduction chapter: https://bit.ly/3p015Yb If anyone is interested in reviewing the book, please contact me! Dr Leighton Evans Undergraduate Programme Director, Media Studies/Cyfarwyddwr Rhaglen Israddedigion, Astudiaethau Cyfryngau. Senior Lecturer | Uwch Ddarlithydd College of Arts & Humanities | Coleg y Celfyddydau a'r Dyniaethau Keir Hardie Building Room 421 | Adeilad Keir Hardie Swansea University | Prifysgol Abertawe SA2 8PP 01792 602843 New book: Intergenerational Locative Play: Augmenting Family<https://www.amazon.co.uk/Intergenerational-Locative-Play-Augmenting-Family/…> (2021) Rhowch wybod i ni os hoffech dderbyn eich gohebiaeth yn Gymraeg. Rydym yn croesawu gohebiaeth yn Gymraeg neu yn Saesneg. Ni fydd gohebu yn Gymraeg yn arwain at oedi. Let us know if you would like to receive correspondence in Welsh. We welcome correspondence in Welsh or English. Corresponding in Welsh will not lead to a delay. [Go to Swansea University Media Site]<http://www.swansea.ac.uk/mediastudies/> [Go to Swansea University Media Site]<http://www.swansea.ac.uk/mediastudies/>

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CFP: 21.6Global queer fandoms of Asian media and celebrities
by Sophie Helen Bishop 08 Feb '21

08 Feb '21

Call for submissions *FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES * Commentary and Criticism *21.6 Global queer fandoms of Asian media and celebrities * Since the 2010s, K-pop music groups, Chinese, South Korean, and Thai TV dramas, Japanese ACG (anime, cosplay, and gaming) cultures, and Hong Kong, Taiwanese, and Singaporean films have continued to grow in popularity on a trans-geocultural scale. With little doubt, global flows of Asian entertainment media and pop culture have been paving the way for a decentering of the Western-dominated global mediascape. Certainly, due to the increasingly close and frequent collaborations between media industries in diverse geolocales, the too-often essentialized notion of “Asianness” and the problematic theoretical binarisms of East/West, global/local, and center/periphery need urgent contestation. It is also hard to ignore the central role played by androgynous personas, homosocial and homoerotic narratives, and norm-defying performances in the worldwide prominence of Asian media and celebrity cultures, as well as their flourishing queer fan communities in inter-Asian and Anglophone contexts. This special Commentary and Criticism section aims to re-center Asia within fan studies through a combined global feminist and queer lens. It highlights the multivalent potential of queer in forming disruption and alternation to established meanings, identities, and norms in global media flows and fannish spaces devoted to Asian media and celebrities. It thus invites contributions that bridge global media studies, Asian pop culture studies, LGBTQ media and audience studies, and queer fan studies to identify promises and problems rooted in or emerging from transcultural, cross-linguistic, multi-ethnic, and (de-)globalist settings. The following are some of the questions this special section considers: How and why do queer sentiments, narratives, and images contribute to the global impact of Asian media and celebrities and appeal to a global fan community? In what ways do global queer fans of Asian media and celebrities negotiate norms and ideals surrounding gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity, nationality, and other sociocultural registers? What roles do traditional values, shared cultural roots, or racial and linguistic proximities play in the global popularity of Asian entertainment? How have contemporary international economic-political situations and local technological affordances complicated queer fans’ transcultural consumption, interpretation, and circulation of Asian pop culture? Short contributions of no more than 1500 words from a wide range of disciplines and theoretical approaches are encouraged. The editor especially welcomes entries concerning queer fandoms in inter-Asian contexts and based in non-English-speaking locales and digital spaces. Submissions may address, but are not limited to, topics such as: · Ethno-nationalistic sentiments and racial conflicts in transcultural queer fandoms of Asian media and celebrities · The role of queerbaiting in expanding the global fandom of Asian entertainment · Asian pop cover dance involving cross-gender or cross-dressing performances · Anglophone fandoms of Asian boys’ love (BL) or girls’ love (GL) media · Cross-dressing, inter-ethnic anime, cosplay, and gaming (ACG) cultures · Fan communities dedicated to Asian media and celebrities as global LGBTQ spaces · The role of social media in forming global queer fandoms of Asian pop culture · Fansubbing (fan subtitling/translation), fanvidding (fan video-making), and fan gossiping practices for queer readings of Asian media and celebrities · Cross-cultural imaginations and stereotyping in queer fan productions concerning Asian media and celebrities The Commentary and Criticism section of *Feminist Media Studies* aims to publish brief (~1000 words), timely responses to current issues in feminist media culture, for an international readership. Submissions may pose a provocation, describe work in progress, or propose areas for future study. We will also consider book and event reviews, as well as contributions that depart from traditional academic formats. We encourage all submissions to strategically mobilize critique to also offer a productive contribution to both feminist politics and media studies. Submissions must go beyond mere description in order to be considered for publication in Commentary and Criticism. *Please submit contributions by Thursday 1 April 2021, via email to Jamie J. Zhao (**jingjamiezhao(a)gmail.com**) *Questions and expressions of interest can also be addressed to Dr. Zhao in advance of the deadline. Please note that submissions for Commentary and Criticism will not be correctly processed if submitted through via the *Feminist Media Studies* website, and should be emailed directly to Dr. Zhao using the email address above. Please be sure to follow the *Feminist Media Studies* style and referencing guides, which can be found here. Dr Sophie Bishop www.sophiebishop.co.uk | @sophiehbishop

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Public Service Media in Challenging Times: Connectivity, Climate and Corona. A talk by Graham Murdock, hosted and organised by InnoPSM
by Christian Fuchs 08 Feb '21

08 Feb '21

Public Service Media in Challenging Times: Connectivity, Climate and Corona. A talk by Graham Murdock, hosted and organised by InnoPSM Mon, 15 February 2021, 16:00 British Time, 17:00 CET Where? Zoom Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-service-media-in-challenging-times-co… Participants will receive Zoom access data at latest one day in advance of the meeting. In this talk, Prof Graham Murdock will analyse public service media in the challenging times we live in. The institutions and animating ideals of public service broadcasting have been under continuous pressure for the last four decades. Advocates of marketisation have argued long and hard that they are no longer relevant or needed in a world of digital abundance and infinite choice, pointing to the increasing migration of young people to on-line platforms. These arguments continue to gain traction. A new proposal for an alternative future must place relations between broadcasting and the internet at the centre of argument. Discussions around how these relations might be organised has been underway for some time but recent developments have invested them with new relevance and urgency. 2020 was marked by a global pandemic, an accelerating climate crisis, and an explosion of direct action across the political spectrum. The processes driving these events are still unfolding presenting Public Service Media with both new challenges and new opportunities. The talk will open a conversation of how we might respond. InnoPSM - Innovation in Public Service Media Policies is an AHRC research network that facilitates exchange between academic experts and key PSM stakeholders and develops a research agenda across national and disciplinary boundaries with a view to advancing our thinking about innovative policy solutions and strategies to respond to the major digital challenges confronting PSM. This talk is part of InnoPSM’s focus on Envisioning Public Service Media Utopias.

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Online activism across issues
by Diana Ishmatova 08 Feb '21

08 Feb '21

Hello everyone, I'm looking for readings/research on online activism that explores activism across different issues, for example whether climate change activists are also active in other issues of social importance and what could it signify. Thank you! Diana Ishmatova PhD, Researcher, APEC digital government research cebter

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