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WEBCAST TUE/WED – State of the Net 2021 ‘Internet Policy in Transition’
by Joly MacFie 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

Apologies for the lack of a notice yesterday for Day 1. Hands full! The stream was indeed hit by the FiOS outage (I'm in Brooklyn on FiOS) but, while livestream did drop for an hour or more, Periscope, and Twitch, and to a lesser degree Facebook, recovered within minutes, and Zoom never faltered. I have restreamed the morning segments. That's why we simulcast! Note that, rather than open captions, I am posting otter links to a separate page <https://isoc.live/sotn2021-realtimetext/>, which does need to be refreshed at the start of each session.. Great line up today. ISOC Live posted: "On Tuesday - Wednesday January 27 -28 2021 from 11am-6pm EST (16:00-23:00 UTC) the Internet Education Foundation presents the 2021 State of the Net (SOTN) conference online. SOTN is America's premier Internet policy conference and this year has the theme " [image: livestream]On *Tuesday - Wednesday January 27 -28 2021* from *11am-6pm EST* (16:00-23:00 UTC) the *Internet Education Foundation <https://www.neted.org/>* presents the *2021 State of the Net* (SOTN) conference online. SOTN is America's premier Internet policy conference and this year has the theme '*Internet Policy in Transition*'. Speakers include *Senator Amy Klobuchar* (D-MN), *Rep. Anna G. Eshoo* (D-CA), and FCC Commissioner *Geoffrey Starks*. *LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety/sotn2021 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/sotn2021>* *AGENDA https://sotn21.sched.com/ <https://sotn21.sched.com/>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3sUF68j <https://bit.ly/3sUF68j>* *REAL TIME TEXT <https://isoc.live/13592/> * *https://isoc.live/sotn2021-realtimetext/* <https://isoc.live/sotn2021-realtimetext/> *TWITTER #SOTN2021 <http://bit.ly/SOTN2021> @netedfound @isocdc* *SIMULCASTS* *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/InternetEducationFoundation <https://www.facebook.com/InternetEducationFoundation>* *ARCHIVES* *https://archive.org/details/sotn2021 <https://archive.org/details/sotn2021>* *https://www.youtube.com/sotndc <https://www.youtube.com/sotndc>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/13599/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Qualitative Researchers: Can we Chat?
by Jennifer Stromer-Galley 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

Hi everyone, My colleagues and I are interested in how researchers do the work of qualitatively analyzing unstructured information, like from field notes, interview transcripts, and documents (from digital to analog). We are especially interested in how doctoral students in the dissertation phase navigate the challenges of working with and analyzing this sort of data. The research is part of the NSF I-Corp program (https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/i-corps/) that is supporting our work to discover whether some of the research we have done in the past could potentially be commercialized. If you would be willing to chat for 15 minutes about how you work, the tools you use, and what challenges you face, send a note to my colleague Brian McKernan via email at bmckerna(a)syr.edu<mailto:bmckerna@syr.edu>. Thank! ~Jenny Stromer-Galley School of Information Studies Syracuse University

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CFP Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices and the Everyday, 21-22-23 April 2021, free virtual conference
by Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

Dear colleagues, With apologies for x-posting --- this is a reminder --- kindly consider submitting to our upcoming conference: Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices and the Everyday which will take place on 21-22-23 April 2021. The submission deadline for panels is 31 January 2021. Abstracts can be submitted until 15 February 2021. For submission guidelines see below. http://connectingeuropeproject.eu/home/conference/?fbclid=IwAR0eLZ819IJN7VS… Detailed information: Call for papers Migrant belonging through digital connectivity refers to a way of being in the world that cuts across national borders, shaping new forms of diasporic affiliations and transnational intimacy. This happens in ways that are different from the ways enabled by the communication technologies of the past. Scholarly attention has intensified around the question of how various new technical affordances of platforms and apps are shaping the transnationally connected, and locally situated, social worlds in which migrants live their everyday lives. This international conference focuses on the connection between the media and migration from different disciplinary vantage points. Connecting with friends, peers and family, sharing memories and personally identifying information, navigating spaces and reshaping the local and the global in the process is but one side of the coin of migrant-related technology use: this Janus-faced development also subjects individuals as well as groups to increased datafied migration management, algorithmic control and biometric classification as well as forms of transnational authoritarianism and networked repression. This conference pays particular attention to the everyday use of digital media for the support of transnational lives, emotional bonds and cosmopolitan affiliations, focusing also on the role digital media play in shaping local/urban and national diasporic formations. This is because it becomes increasingly important to give everyday digital media usage a central role in investigations of transnational belonging, digital intimacy, diasporic community (re)production, migrant subject formation, long-distance political participation, urban social integration and local/national self-organization. Therefore we need to examine individual and collective user practices within the wider historical and cultural contexts of media studies, cultural studies and postcolonial cultural studies scholarship, attuned to issues of politics and power, identity, geographies and the everyday. This also creates new challenges for cross-disciplinary dialogues that require an integration of ethnography with digital methods and critical data studies in order to look at the formation of identity and experience, representation, community building, and creating spaces of belongingness. Contributions are welcome from any field of study that engages with questions about how technology and social media usages mediate contemporary migration experiences, not only within media and communication studies, or digital and internet studies but also in neighbouring disciplines such as anthropology, postcolonial studies, gender studies, race studies, psychology, law, visual studies, conflict studies, criminology, sociology, critical theory, political theory and international relations. Contributions that explore non-media-centric entry points by focusing on users’ digital practices and foregrounding ethnographic exploration as a uniting framework are especially welcome. The conference is part of the ERC project CONNECTINGEUROPE, Digital Crossings in Europe: Gender, Diaspora and Belonging. The conference is organized in collaboration with the DMM section (Diaspora, Migration and the Media) of ECREA (European Communication Research and Education). Confirmed keynote speakers: *Paul Gilroy *Engin Isin *Nicholas de Genova *Larissa Hjorth *Saskia Witteborn Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: *Affective digital practices and the politics of emotion *Digital diaspora *Cosmopolitanism *Cities and urban belonging *Translocality and transnationalism *Co-presence and togetherness *Cultural capital *Migrant visualization *Appification of migration *Platformization of migrant lives *Gender and critical race *The migration industry of connectivity *Digital ethnography *Transnational authoritarianism *Networked conflicts *Datafication and surveillance SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Submissions for panels should be submitted via e-mail to migrantbelongings(a)uu.nl<mailto:migrantbelongings@uu.nl> by 31 January 2021. Submission for panels should include a chairperson, a rationale for the panel (250 words), and the names of three/four speakers including their abstract (250 words) and biographical note (150 words). Abstracts should be submitted electronically, using the online submission system by 15 February 2021. Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeR3DQF2QUikj6LYJo21FFw6tZBDvjyVKZ… Submissions for papers should include an abstract (max 300 words) and short biographical note (150 words) about the author including her/his current position and interest in the field of digital media and migration. For further questions please mail: migrantbelongings(a)uu.nl<mailto:migrantbelongings@uu.nl>. The PDF of this call for papers is available here: https://ecrea.eu/resources/Documents/Yellow-Simple-Official-Letterhead-2.pdf _______________________________________________ Atgender mailing list Atgender(a)list.hum.uu.nl<mailto:Atgender@list.hum.uu.nl> https://list.hum.uu.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/atgender

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CfP: rethinking participatory culture in light of lessons learned from the pandemic
by Katrin Tiidenberg 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

Dear AoIR community, Baltic Screen Media Review, a journal edited and published by my home institution (Tallinn University, Baltic Film, Media and Arts School) is doing a special issue on participatory practices and culture in the context of pandemic, which I am co-editing. I am sharing a CfP in hopes there will be scholars here interested in submitting an abstract. best Kat Tiidenberg Call For Papers: Baltic Screen Media Review - Participation in transition: Rethinking participatory culture The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed physical interaction among people, but it also continues to shape our relations with media and technology. Mediated and distant interaction and communication became the norm. This led to struggles for some individuals, groups, institutions, practices and services, while others blossomed and thrived. Is participatory culture, as we know it, changing as a result of the challenges of 2020? Building on the 2020 volume of Baltic Screen Media Review, which explored the changes that the COVID-19 pandemic brought to media industries, we now call for papers on participation in the context of the pandemic and related crises. While the pandemic has posed an incredible challenge in terms of media production, it has concurrently pushed innovation, resulting in a reinvigorated relationship between media and the audiences. Media was the window to the world for locked-down people, and via media and communication technologies people were informed, entertained and able to interact with one another. Yet, the incredible volume of data created from people’s media participation has enhanced rather than diminished the disproportionate power of already powerful platforms and corporations held over access, participation, public speech and cultural discourse. This has been a fertile ground for new participatory practices to emerge. We as scholars of participatory culture thus need to renew our focus on not only the empirical expressions of participation, but also on how we make sense of participation and how we conceptualize the effects of macro scale changes on it. Therefore, we call for submissions that explore the concept of participation, its present state and its future from both political and sociological perspectives. In this volume of BSMR, we will accept long (4000 – 8000 words w/o ref) and short (2000 – 2500 words w/o ref) articles and commentaries. These articles should reflect on and explore a range of issues concerning participatory culture. We invite articles focusing on the Baltic Sea region (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Russia, Poland, Germany, Finland, etc.), but analyses of similar issues elsewhere, especially in countries of similar size and circumstances, are also welcome. Contributions addressing topics such as (but not limited to) the following are particularly welcome: Participatory culture in transition The future of participation Interactive and participatory practices Emergence of new forms of audience engagement Crisis-specific participation and crisis participatory culture Digitalisation and the power of platforms Local vs global, local practices, local alternatives to platforms, local information bubbles The digital public sphere Collective identity and digital engagement Key dates: 15.03.2021 - Submit abstracts of 200–300 words. 01.04.2021 – Communication of acceptance of abstracts 14.06.2021 – Submit full manuscripts that will be sent for blind peer review. This issue of BSMR will appear as Volume 9:2, published both online and in print in late 2021. BSMR embraces visual storytelling, we thus invite authors to use photos and other illustrations as part of their contributions. All submissions should be sent via email attachment to Katrin Tiidenberg (katrin.tiidenberg(a)tlu.ee <mailto:ibrus@tlu.ee>) and Alessandro Nanì (nani(a)tlu.ee <mailto:nani@tlu.ee>). Note: BSMR does not charge any author fees Further info about the journal can be found at https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/bsmr/bsmr-overview.xml?language=e… <https://content.sciendo.com/view/journals/bsmr/bsmr-overview.xml?language=e…> Katrin Tiidenberg Osaluskultuuri professor / Professor of Participatory Culture BFM, Tallinn University <https://www.tlu.ee/en/bfm> Recently published: Tiidenberg, K., Gammelby, A.K., Olsen, L.M. (2020). Agential hysterias: A practice approach to embodiment on social media. In: Warfield, Katie; Abidin, Cystal; Cambre, Carolina (Ed.). Mediated Interfaces: The Body on Social Media (229−247). Bloomsbury Academic. Books: Kuidas mõista andmestunud maailma?Metodoloogiline teejuht (2021) <https://www.tlu.ee/pood/home/325-kuidas-moista-andmestunud-maailma-metodolo…> Metaphors of the Internet <https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/72208> (2020) Sex and Social Media <https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Sex-and-Social-Media/?k=978183…> (2020) Selfies, why we love (and hate) them <https://www.amazon.com/Selfies-Love-Hate-Them-SocietyNow/dp/1787437175> (2018) Ihu ja hingega internetis <https://www.tlu.ee/pood/home/242-ihu-ja-hingega-internetis-kuidas-moista-so…> (2017) Executive Boards: Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) <https://aoir.org/>, Secretary Estonian Young Academy of Sciences / Eesti Noorte Teaduste Akadeemia <https://www.akadeemia.ee/enta/>, Communication Manager More info: personal website <https://kkatot.tumblr.com/> Estonian Research Information system profile <https://www.etis.ee/CV/Katrin_Tiidenberg/est?lang=ENG>

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Fast Capitalism CFP
by Arditi, David M 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

Colleagues, With all of the craziness from insurrections to COVID, Fast Capitalism's mission<https://fastcapitalism.journal.library.uta.edu/index.php/fastcapitalism/abo…> to publish critical work on how digital networks impact current moment is as important as ever. Whether you're working on a paper discussing rising authoritarianism on platforms like Parler, media disinformation, virtual schooling, or something else, feel free to send your work. Attached is our general open call. Please circulate to your networks and let me know if you have any ideas. Best, David Dr. David Arditi Associate Professor of Sociology Director of the Center for Theory University of Texas at Arlington Author of Getting Signed: Record Contracts, Musicians and Power in Society<https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783030445867>

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Internet fatigue, digital gardening, DIY digital expression
by Emma Stamm 26 Jan '21

26 Jan '21

Hi all, I am working on a report about the related phenomena of internet burnout and "digital gardening <https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/03/1007716/digital-gardens-let-you…>." This report discusses web users' desire for greater control over the display of social media content -- e.g. the design affordances of Tumblr as opposed to Facebook -- as it connects to digital fatigue / boredom with mainstream platforms. I'm hoping to interview one or two researchers working on these topics. Note that this is not for an academic publication, but your name and bio will be included along with links to relevant publications. Please let me know if you're interested. Thank you in advance. Best, Emma -- *Emma Stamm, Ph.D.* *Instructor, Dept. of History, Virginia Tech* *Instructor, Dept. of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU* *www.o-culus.com <http://www.o-culus.com/> *

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Enabling the future of academic research with the Twitter API
by Richard Forno 26 Jan '21

26 Jan '21

FYI ... Enabling the future of academic research with the Twitter API When we introduced the next generation of the Twitter API in July 2020, we also shared our plans to invest in the success of the academic research community with tailored solutions that better serve their goals. Today, we’re excited to launch the Academic Research product track on the new Twitter API. < - > https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tips/2021/enabling-the-futu…

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Short survey on use of common energy sources during climate change (6-8 minutes, 3 cash prizes from $60-$180)
by Jonas Miosga 26 Jan '21

26 Jan '21

Dear colleagues, in my master thesis I study consumption of limited resources and its implications for the currently ongoing climate change. I would be very happy if you can support me by taking part in the study which consists of two short games. You can win cash prizes (1x $180 and 2x $60) which will be paid out by mid of February 2021. Click the following link to get started: https://bit.ly/3iz0qeH Thank you very much, I really appreciate your time! Kind regards, Jonas Miosga, master student at University of Konstanz, Germany

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New publication on Environmental Virtual Reality
by Urooj Raja 26 Jan '21

26 Jan '21

Dear colleagues, I’m pleased to share this new publication, online first in *Environmental Communication. *A Qualitative Exploration of Individual Experiences of Environmental Virtual Reality Through the Lens of Psychological Distance. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17524032.2020.1871052 ABSTRACT How to increase public engagement in environmental issues is a central question in environmental communication and environmental psychology literatures. Psychological distance (PD) is one potential barrier to public engagement. PD describes the perceptual distance between a person’s experience and an external target. Immersive technologies such as virtual reality (VR) have the potential to shrink PD. Yet, we know little about how people perceive and react to an environmental VR experience or about the role that PD plays in these reactions. To address this gap, we use interviews and focus groups to examine how people react to a VR experience about ocean acidification. We find that PD is prevalent in the reactions of VR users, especially first-time users, and that 62% of participants described feeling psychologically close to ocean acidification. Best, Urooj S. Raja PhD. Candidate NSF GRFP Fellow Environmental Studies University of Colorado at Boulder https://twitter.com/uroojra

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Article about Covid-19 early warnings on Twitter
by Monica Marra 26 Jan '21

26 Jan '21

For those interested in the relationship between the Covid-19 pandemic and social networks, may I point out this new paper based upon Twitter and published on "Scientific Reports" yesterday: Early warnings of COVID-19 outbreaks across Europe from social media, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-81333-1 Abstract: "We analyze data from Twitter to uncover early-warning signals of COVID-19 outbreaks in Europe in the winter season 2019–2020, before the first public announcements of local sources of infection were made. We show evidence that unexpected levels of concerns about cases of pneumonia were raised across a number of European countries. Whistleblowing came primarily from the geographical regions that eventually turned out to be the key breeding grounds for infections. These findings point to the urgency of setting up an integrated digital surveillance system in which social media can help geo-localize chains of contagion that would otherwise proliferate almost completely undetected." Regards, MM -- Monica Marra INAF - Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio v. Gobetti 93/3 I-40129 Bologna, Italy uff. 3W1 Scopus author ID: 7102382905 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Monica_Marra

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