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How data-mining works 101
by Sanjay Sharma (Staff) 29 Jan '21

29 Jan '21

Hello All I've been asked by some keen students to present a short lecture on how data mining works in the ad industry viavsocial media platforms/apps. I'm aware it can be quite complex, with data brokers etc. Any recommendations for 'go to' articles, essential reading, videos, infographics etc, would be appreciated. Many thanks Sanjay Brunel University London

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CFP: Digital (Un)wellness: Power, Health, and Screen Time - 4S Open Panel
by Alex Beattie 28 Jan '21

28 Jan '21

Dear AoIR colleagues, We hope you're holding up in the endless endlessness. We're writing to invite you to submit abstracts for papers to our 4S Open Panel, <https://www.4sonline.org/58-digital-unwellness-power-health-and-screen-time/> *Digital (Un)wellness: Power, Health, and Screen Time.* The deadline for abstracts is March 8 and the conference is ostensibly taking place in Toronto, October 6-9. No matter what, there will be options for distance participation. The panel description is below, and of course please feel free to send this CFP to anyone who might be interested. Sincerely, Laura Calloway*, Indiana University* Alex Beattie*, Victoria University of Wellington* Hannah Zeavin*, UC Berkeley* Chad Valasek*, University of California at San Diego* *Digital (Un)wellness: Power, Health, and Screen Time* In recent years, an emerging concern over the amount of time that people spend in front of screens has led to pathologizing models of digital device use (i.e., “digital addiction”). Scientific research and corporate programs, such as Google’s Digital Wellbeing app or Apple’s Screen Time app, have constructed digital wellness, positing an ideal amount of digital device use, while also generating new understandings to expertise of “healthy” productivity, digital forms of parental supervision, and combating physical fatigue, depression, and burnout. Although engineers and psychologists have turned toward descriptions of digital overuse and addiction, other scholars have turned toward the so-called attention economy. While both groups of scholars may be critical of tech industry exploitation of users, they also tend to reinforce akratic models of users. In addition, the entanglements between digital wellness and health remain wedded to surveillance–especially through infrastructures for data collection and body tracking. We seek papers that reevaluate digital wellbeing from a critical STS perspective and center aspects of social inequality inherent in digital wellness discourses. Topics may include: discourses surrounding home surveillance, children, and screens; the relationship between COVID-19 and screen time debates; digital labor and its relation to the possibilities and limits of political futures; how digital wellbeing experts and the psy-disciplines construct digital addiction; the relationship of digital wellness to the gig economy, platform labor, digital inequalities and global divides; or how digital wellbeing could be politicized and collectivized as a form of mutual aid and good relations. Potential topics include: Digital health, wellness, surveillance, labor, mutual aid, "digital addiction" ------------------------------------------- *Alex Beattie* Postdoctoral Research Fellow Centre for Science in Society | Pūkenga, Pūtaiao ki te Pāpori Victoria University of Wellington | Te Herenga Waka lxbt.co <https://apac01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furlproxy…> | @amdbeattie

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story in today's Smithsonian Magazine about distance ed w/my 1976 video
by Paul Levinson 28 Jan '21

28 Jan '21

scroll down https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/1950s-tv-show-set-stage-modern-dista… a rare chance (for better or worse) to see what I looked and sounded like in 1976 ... also Neil Postman in his prime ... the current Smithsonian article is about Sunrise Semester as an early example of distance education ... the discussion in that video was about television advertising -Paul *Welcome Up: Songs of Space and Time * - digital <https://open.spotify.com/album/4S1oaV75qF6tRFfdDwDczE>, CD <http://paullev.com/product/welcome-up-songs-of-space-and-time-cd/>, vinyl <https://lightintheattic.net/releases/6371-welcome-up-songs-of-space-and-time> "Eight slices of interstellar delight" -- Jon Pruett, *Ugly Things Magazine*, September 2020 <https://www.reverbnation.com/page_object/join_mailing_list/artist_86705>

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2021 digital campaigning, activism & advocacy guide
by Colin Delany 28 Jan '21

28 Jan '21

Hi everyone, I'm proud (and relieved) to announce that the 2021 edition of "How to Use the Internet to Change the World - and Win Lections" is now online. This eighth edition of the book includes lessons from the 2020 U.S. campaigns, the worldwide wave of racial-justice protests and pro-democracy activism, and from the realities of campaigning in a pandemic. It includes eighteen chapters and 137 pages of digital politics and advocacy goodness, and past editions have been used in university classes in several countries. If you've picked up a copy of the PDF or a site license from Epolitics.com in the past, you should have received an email with a super-secret code to download the new edition. If not, please let me know. The ebook version is also available in the Amazon Kindle store. Check it out: How to Use the Internet to Change the World - and Win Elections [2021 Edition] A Comprehensive Guide to Digital Politics for Campaigns, Activists & Advocates http://www.epolitics.com/winning Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions! --cpd 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: 33rd British HCI Conference 2021
by Jose Abdelnour-Nocera 28 Jan '21

28 Jan '21

One behalf of the BCS Interaction Specialist group and the Organising committee we are very pleased to announce the general call for papers for this year's British HCI Conference. 19-21 July (Online) - London, UK - University of West London https://hci2021.bcs.org/ Post-Pandemic HCI – Living digitally The 2021 conference theme is “Post-pandemic HCI – Living Digitally” highlighting current and future efforts for digital innovations in socio-technical systems and related challenges and opportunities. The theme invites to think beyond the current pandemic and be hopeful. ‘Living digitally’ calls for interpreting and imagining how human-computer interactions and collaborations in all areas of human life may be shaped by the pandemics. The conference accepts submissions related to, but not necessarily limited to, the following topics: – Sustainable HCI (e.g. in the context of global challenges of pandemics and global warming) – Cybersecurity and privacy – Information credibility and Trust – Social computing and creative interaction – Social and Ethical challenges – Human-AI interaction and collaboration – Decolonization and geo-political issues of HCI – Socio-technical HCI – Accessibility of digital technology and the web We invite paper submissions to a number of categories: Full Papers (up to 10 pages excluding references): Will involve an oral presentation at the main conference. These are papers that will feature as a presentation in the main conference, allowing presenters to expose their work to delegates. Submission Deadline: 30th of April. Notifications: 20th of June. Position Papers (2 to 4 pages excluding references): Will involve an oral presentation at the main conference. These are papers that make a statement, a reflection or a new paradigm or concept in human computer interaction. They may also include prospective or much needed studies, or indeed the ambition of a discipline or newly funded project. Submission Deadline: 30th of April. Notifications: 20th of June. Doctoral Consortium Papers (up to 6 pages excluding references): Will involve an oral presentation at the doctoral consortium. These papers will be presented at the doctoral consortium on 19 July 2021. Submission Deadline: 1st of April. Notifications: 30th of April. Workshop Proposals (up to 4 pages excluding references): we welcome proposals for workshops as spaces for debate and co-development of ideas and approaches related to the advancement of research and practice within the field of Human-Computer Interaction. The proposal should be in eWics format, including references. Proposals should be self-contained and clearly provide a detailed workshop description including: title of the workshop; names and affiliations of the facilitators; aim, objectives, benefits and significance of the proposed workshop; a scheduled overview of planned activities; facilitator(s) background, provided as short biographical notes. Submission Deadline: 1st of April. Notifications: 15th of April. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submissions need to use the Microsoft word eWiC template (the eWiC template can be downloaded online at the following URL: http://ewic.bcs.org/category/15364) Your paper should then be submitted using EasyChair by clicking on the following URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bhci2021. You should submit a PDF and the source file of your paper (in .doc or .docx format [Microsoft word]). You are also required to upload a ‘License to Publish’ PDF which you can download here – https://www.bcs.org/media/5222/ewic-licence-publish-fillable.pdf All submissions should be written in English. Submissions will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings in the ACM digital library and by the British Computer Society. At least one author must register for the conference in order for the paper to be published. As with previous years, we are looking for selected papers to be invited as extended papers for the Interacting with Computers Journal. Jose Abdelnour Nocera (University of West London – ITI/ Larsys), Helen Petrie (University of York), Gavin Sim (University of Central Lancashire) https://hci2021.bcs.org/ https://twitter.com/BCSHCI2021 hci2021(a)bcs.org

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WEBCAST THU/FRI: Trinidad and Tobago Internet Governance Forum 2021 – Digitilization – The ‘New Norm’
by Joly MacFie 28 Jan '21

28 Jan '21

Day 1 of this is just starting ISOC Live posted: "On Thursday & Friday January 28-29 2021 from 9am-1pm AST (13:00-17:00 UTC) the fifth Trinidad and Tobago Internet Governance Forum (TTIGF) will be held online. TTIGF 2021 has the theme 'Digitilization - The 'New Norm''. Day 1 has the subthemes 'Digita" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/ttigf2021>On* Thursday & Friday January 28-29 2021* from *9am-1pm AST* (13:00-17:00 UTC) the fifth *Trinidad and Tobago Internet Governance Forum <https://igf.tt/>* (TTIGF) will be held online. TTIGF 2021 has the theme '*Digitilization - The 'New Norm'*'. Day 1 has the subthemes '*Digitalization - The Multistakeholder approach*' and '*Cyber Security in the New Norm*'. Day 2 has '*Tech & Education - Revolutionising Education for a Digital World*' and '*Digital Entrepreneurship*'. *LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/ttigf2021 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/ttigf2021>* *AGENDA https://igf.tt/ttigf-2020-draft-agenda/ <https://igf.tt/ttigf-2020-draft-agenda/>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/2MjErMG <https://bit.ly/2MjErMG>* (questions can also be asked via YouTube chat - link below) *TWITTER #TTIGF2021 <https://bit.ly/TTIGF2021> @isoctt* *SIMULCASTS* *https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzKEG9fcJHGm3P2nZpC0viw/live <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzKEG9fcJHGm3P2nZpC0viw/live>* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/groups/ISOCTT/ <https://www.facebook.com/groups/ISOCTT/>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/ttigf2021 <https://archive.org/details/ttigf2021>* *LINKS* *https://www.facebook.com/ttigf <https://www.facebook.com/ttigf>* . *Permalink* https://isoc.live/13582/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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The 4th International Geomedia 2021 Conference: OFF THE GRID // 5-8 May, 2021 / Online - *SUBMISSION DEADLINE JAN 31ST*
by Sam Hind 28 Jan '21

28 Jan '21

*Apologies for X-posting* A reminder that the extended deadline for submissions is this Sunday, January 31st. <https://www.kau.se/en/geomedia> See below for the Call for Papers. We are planning for a fully-digital conference. Details tbc. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Geomedia 2021 – Off the Grid CALL FOR PAPERS: The 4th International Geomedia Conference Online (hosted from Siegen, Germany), 5-8 May 2021 The phrase “off the grid” is commonly understood to refer to the voluntary decoupling from established infrastructure networks such as electricity, water or gas supply. The implication is one of material independence and a self-sufficient lifestyle. Going “off the grid” means making yourself invisible by rebuking the social and technological structures that normally organize our lives. It is entering, or returning to, uncharted territory. The grid from which you disappear is often imagined like a web that we are woven into, at once providing security – of cultural connectivity, opportunities to work, or societal participation – while also limiting individual, political or technological agency. The grid also speaks to the geographic coordinate system, an all-encompassing global structure which makes it possible to accurately locate any point on earth. This unified grid represents a dominant ordering principle for everything “locatable”. It is part of the technological infrastructure of many platforms, services and applications which fall under the definition of geomedia, most prominently the Global Positioning System (GPS). In this regard, “off the grid” is a move away from such Cartesian notions of space towards a situated relational account of (quotidian) practices carried out with, through, or in relation to, geomedia. Going off the grid has also been seen as a form of renunciation of the conveniences of the late capitalist (media) world in order to lead a supposedly slower, less stressful and eventually less superficial life – as inspired by the transcendentalism of the likes of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. But with so many people relying on the grid for purposes of work and entertainment in recent times, what does this mean for our relation to geomedia? What does going off the grid look like now? This presupposes, of course, that there is ipso facto a grid – an infrastructure – which one can connect to freely at any time. But a great number of people do not get to choose to decouple from the grid – a fact that speaks to questions of access to the socio-material infrastructures underpinning geomedia and associated communities and practices. Arguably, practices of surveillance and countersurveillance concern the implicit or even involuntary participation in corresponding infrastructures. Here, optimization for a range of tasks and activities routinely involves a certain kind of surveillance; a default setting in the running of all kinds of media platforms used for navigation, video streaming or online gaming. In this, surveillance is wrapped up with profit-seeking practices, and the extraction of value from the ‘data fumes’ of platform users, who enter a form of “cooperation without consensus” as they stream movies, hire taxis, host videoconferences, ride public transport, or go on dates. In these various iterations, surveillance might look different, and/or be practiced in distinct ways to traditional forms of state or corporate surveillance, increasingly dependent on technological protocols and standards that not only underpin the grid but also govern our use of geomedia. One consequence is that the relation between private and public spheres is transformed, and introduces new questions of governance, exploitation and marginalization. It is of crucial importance, who is online, and who is offline might as well not exist. Yet these optimization processes are also subject to countermeasures that constitute new modes of existence – from anonymous accounts and the use of VPNs, to location spoofing, and other tricks and techniques to hide, erase, or obfuscate user activity and location. Yet the grid is not all-encompassing, nor all-powerful. Whilst countersurveillance efforts resist, fight back and oppose, alternative geomedia projects imagine the grid differently – sometimes even plotting its demise. From community broadband initiatives, to independent media organizations, post-capitalist streaming platforms, and citizen science projects; there is a continued, concerted effort to build alternatives to state-based, or company-owned geomedia, operating at various scales from the hyper-local to the global. Through these efforts, organizers and participants question the foundations of our collective social and technological infrastructures, redefining what it is to care, share, distribute, cultivate or reallocate funds, resources, opportunities and ideas – bringing new geomedia, and new imaginaries of hope (or perhaps fear), into existence. Keynote Speakers: Caren Kaplan – University of California at Davis, USA Nanna Verhoeff – Utrecht University, Netherlands A.N. Other - tbc Suggested paper topics include, but are not limited to: * Politics, philosophy and ethics of going off grid * Grid as Network, Grid as Default (Geomedia and Infrastructure) * Physical Geography/Relational Geography * Inhabiting Digital Geographies (VR, hybrid spaces) * Geomedia in the Global South * Urban and Rural Geomedia * The ‘geo’ in Geomedia, the ‘media’ in Geomedia * Governing Geomedia (smart city, sensor media, infrastructures, surveillance & countersurveillance) * Geomedia Activism * Digital detox, rationing, quarantine and isolation * Geomedia Histories Geomedia 2021 welcomes proposals for individual papers, thematic panels, discussion fora, and mini-workshops in English. Individual paper proposals: The author submits an abstract of 200–250 words. Accepted papers are grouped by the organizers into sessions of 5 papers according to thematic area. Thematic panel proposals: The chair of the panel submits a proposal consisting of 4–5 individual paper abstracts (200-250 words) along with a general panel presentation of 200–250 words. Discussion forum: The chair of the discussion submits a general panel presentation of 300–450 words along with the names of the discussants and their respective fields of expertise. Please include your local time zone to aid our scheduling efforts. Mini-workshop: The chair of the workshop submits a workshop outline of 300–450 words. Please include the expectations and/or requirements the participants should fulfill in order to join the workshop. Please include your local time zone to aid our scheduling efforts. Conference timeline October 31st 2020: Submission system opens *EXTENDED DEADLINE* January 31st 2021: Deadline for all papers and proposals February 25th 2021: Notes of acceptance and registration opens March 15th 2021: Last day of registration Conference website Information about registration, conference programme, social events and other arrangements will be posted continuously on the conference website: www.geomediastudies.com<http://www.geomediastudies.com>. Contact: You can reach us at info(a)geomediastudies.com<mailto:info@geomedia.se>. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// The 4th International Geomedia conference OFF THE GRID will take place in Siegen, Germany from 5-8 May, 2021. Hosted by Locating Media & Media of Cooperation at the University of Siegen: http://www.locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de/home-en/ & https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/<https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/de/> It follows successful, and popular, versions in Karlstad, Sweden hosted by the Geomedia team at Karlstad University: https://www.kau.se/en/geomedia - Research Associate SFB1187 Media of Cooperation @mediaofcoop<https://twitter.com/mediaofcoop> | University of Siegen hind(a)locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de<Mailto:hind@locatingmedia.uni-siegen.de> https://samhind.com/ <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/people/student-researchers/sam-…> <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/cim/people/student-researchers/sam-…>

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CFP - eSociety track at 'Digital Transformation & Global Society' Conference
by Sergei Pashakhin 28 Jan '21

28 Jan '21

Call for Papers eSociety track Digital Transformation & Global Society (DTGS 2021) - https://dtgs-conference.org/ Conference Date: 23-25 June 2021, online Submission Deadline: March 1, 2021 Track Organizers: Social and Cognitive Informatics Lab (SCILa - https://scila.hse.ru/en/) formerly Laboratory for Internet Studies (LINIS) at HSE University. Dear friends and colleagues, We are organizing the eSociety track at DTGS 2021 and invite you to submit 12-15 pages long papers (Springer LNCS format) focused on but not limited to such topics as: Quantifying offline phenomena through online data Forecasting of social phenomena with digital traces Social influence and social contagion Online community structure & dynamics Individual social tie formation, maintenance & decay Information & disinformation diffusion, perception and effects (including electoral and COVID-related information) Online political deliberation, polarization, and mobilization Problem detection in communication in and with vulnerable groups (children, women, ethnic minorities, etc.), including hate speech, discrimination, and cyber-bullying Predicting and explaining game user behavior and its social implications Designing digital environments to improve societies Security, privacy, trust, reputation, and incentive issues Opinion mining and social media analytics News production & consumption in the Internet era Social media and health behaviors Equity in social and information systems Accepted papers can be published in the Communications in Computer and Information Science series of Springer proceedings. Learn more on the conference website: https://dtgs-conference.org/. Best regards, Olessia Koltsova DTGS'21 Steering Committee Director, Laboratory for Social & Cognitive Informatics National Research University Higher School of Economics https://scila.hse.ru/en/ http://www.hse.ru/en/org/persons/202747 <http://www.hse.ru/en/org/persons/202747> Sergei Pashakhin DTGS'21 Organization Committee https://www.hse.ru/en/staff/pashakhin

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digital technologies, transition and disability - Disability & Society journal.
by Edgar Pacheco 28 Jan '21

28 Jan '21

Dear colleagues, The latest issue of the academic journal Disability & Society includes our article about the role of digital technologies in the transition to higher education of students with disabilities. You can get a copy in this link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09687599.2020.1735305 Regards, Edgar P. Abstract Research on transition to higher education and young people with disabilities has increased in recent years. However, there is still limited understanding of transition issues and how digital technologies, such as social media and mobile devices, are used by this group of students to manage these issues. This article presents the findings of an empirical study that addressed this matter based on young people’s views and experiences. The qualitative study was conducted in the context of a group of students with vision impairments transitioning to a New Zealand university. The findings draw from observations, a researcher diary, focus groups, individual interviews, and data from social media. The study shows that, like their non-disabled peers, the students actively engaged with interactive and collaborative digital technologies to make sense, individually and collectively, of different transition issues before, during and after the first academic trimester of their university journey. *Dr Edgar Pacheco* -------------------------------------------------- *@edgarpachecob1* <https://twitter.com/edgarpachecob1?lang=en> -------------------------------------------------- <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1406972> --------------------------------------------------

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Call for Reviews: Popular Culture Studies Journal
by Christopher John Olson 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

The Popular Culture Studies Journal is seeking authors to review works on any aspect of American or international popular culture. Specifically, we are interested in reviews of recent (i.e. published within the last two years) scholarly monographs or anthologies and general interest books examining all areas of popular culture from a variety of perspectives. We will also consider older seminal pieces that deserve a second look. For a list of books to review, please visit Booklist for Reviews. In addition, we are soliciting reviews of films, videos, websites, games, theater, or any other popular works that have been published, released, performed, or posted in the last two years. Once again, we will also consider older seminal works that deserve a second look. We only ask that reviews of popular media texts highlight how such works might be used in pedagogical or scholarly situations. If you wish to review a popular media text, you must submit a brief rationale for the relevance of the review. A short paragraph outlining why you think the text is worthy of review in the journal will suffice. Reviews should adhere to the ethos of the Popular Culture Studies Journal and be largely positive with any criticism of the work being constructive in nature. For more information about this journal, please visit the Popular Culture Studies Journal<https://mpcaaca.org/the-popular-culture-studies-journal/>. Written reviews should be roughly 800-1,000 words and should be typed, double-spaced with 12-point Times New Roman font. Research and documentation must adhere to The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers and The MLA Style Manual, 8th edition, which requires a Works Cited list with parenthetical author/page references in the text. Punctuation, capitalization, hyphenation, and other matters of style must also follow The MLA Handbook and The MLA Style Manual. If you are interested in submitting any alternative form of review, please contact the reviews editor directly with your proposed format. Guidelines will be determined depending on the proposed format. Reviews should be sent electronically to Christopher J. Olson at olson429(a)uwm.edu with "PCSJ Review" and the author’s last name in the subject line. Reviews should include both the review and the reviewer’s complete contact information (name, university affiliation, address, and email). Reviews should be sent as Microsoft Word attachments in .doc or .docx format unless an alternative format has been approved by the editor. To be considered for the April issue, reviews must be submitted by February 28th. To be considered for the October issue, reviews must be submitted by August 31st. If you are interested in reviewing for the Popular Culture Studies Journal or if you are an author or publisher with a work you would like to have reviewed, then please contact the reviews editor at the following address or email: Christopher J. Olson, Reviews Editor Email: olson429(a)uwm.edu Christopher John Olson PhD candidate: Media, Cinema, and Digital Studies University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Office: Curtin 392 Email: olson429(a)uwm.edu Reviews Editor, The Popular Culture Studies Journal<http://mpcaaca.org/the-popular-culture-studies-journal/> Author/Co-Author/Co-Editor Normalizing Mental Illness and Neurodiversity in Entertainment Media<https://www.routledge.com/Normalizing-Mental-Illness-and-Neurodiversity-in-…> (Routledge, 2021) The Greatest Cult Television Shows of All Time<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538122556/The-Greatest-Cult-Television-Shows-of…> (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020) Convergent Wrestling<https://www.routledge.com/Convergent-Wrestling-Participatory-Culture-Transm…> (Routledge, 2019) 100 Greatest Cult Films<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442208223/100-Greatest-Cult-Films> (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) Heroes, Heroines, and Everything in Between<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498539579/Heroes-Heroines-and-Everything-in-Bet…> (Lexington, 2017) Possessed Women, Haunted States<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498519083/Possessed-Women-Haunted-States-Cultur…> (Lexington, 2016) Making Sense of Cinema <https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/making-sense-of-cinema-9781501320217/> (Bloomsbury, 2016)

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