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CRIS
by Sam Srauy 01 Jan '21

01 Jan '21

Hi everyone, Is anyone working on or thinking about working on organizing the Critical Race and Internet Studies, day 1 event? I'd be interested in joining an effort. Sam ------ Sam Srauy, Ph.D. Associate Professor Digital Media and Production Coordinator Department of Communication, Journalism, and Public Relations Oakland University 248.370.4352

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12 Streams 2020 #6 – Social Development Q&A with Andrew Sullivan
by Joly MacFie 31 Dec '20

31 Dec '20

The last word(s) in 2020 go to ISOC CEO Andrew Sullivan, making an appearance at the 2020 IGF. He is concise and to the point as always, only the hair is long! ISOC Live posted: "Today, Thursday December 31 2020, at 7:00pm EST (00:00 UTC) in the sixth instalment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams 2020 highlights, we feature Internet Society President & CEO Andrew Sullivan participating in the IGF 2020 " [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-6>Today, *Thursday December 31 2020*, at *7:00pm EST* (00:00 UTC) in the sixth instalment of the *Internet Society Livestreaming <https://isoc.live/>*‘s ‘*12 Days of Streams <https://isoc.live/?s=%2312streams>* 2020 highlights, we feature Internet Society President & CEO *Andrew Sullivan <https://www.internetsociety.org/author/sullivan/>* participating in the *IGF 2020 High-Level Leaders Track: Social Development <https://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/igf-2020-high-level-leader…>* on 16 November 2020. Andrew answers a series of questions posed by moderatrice Ibtissem Bedjaoui. VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-6 TWITTER #12STREAMS <http://bit.ly/2t8HX2J> @SullivanISOC @InternetSociety #igf2020 #vIGF2020 #IGF #socialdevelopment SIMULCASTS https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live ARCHIVE https://archive.org/details/12streams2020-6 ORIGINAL STREAM http://webtv.un.org/watch/igf-2020-high-level-leaders-track-social-developm… *Permalink* https://isoc.live/13305/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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12 Streams 2020 #5 - Growing & Sustaining Internet - Jane Coffin & Joseph Bishi
by Joly MacFie 30 Dec '20

30 Dec '20

Resilience has been a key concept in 2020, and the Internet Society actually ran a series of seven African Internet Resilience webinars <https://www.internetsociety.org/events/african-internet-resilience/> exploring it in depth. At the end of the year, Joseph Bishi, one of the speakers in that series, joined Jane Coffin and the wider ISOC community to tell his story. ISOC Live posted: "Today, Wednesday December 30 2020, at 7:00pm EST (00:00 UTC) in the fifth instalment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams 2020 highlights, we feature two presentations from the fifth Intercommunity call in 2020, a 'Special Edition' " [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-5>Today, *Wednesday December 30 2020*, at *7:00pm EST* (00:00 UTC) in the fifth instalment of the *Internet Society Livestreaming <https://isoc.live/>*‘s ‘*12 Days of Streams <https://isoc.live/?s=%2312streams>* 2020 highlights, we feature two presentations from the fifth *Intercommunity <https://www.internetsociety.org/intercommunity>* call in 2020, a 'Special Edition' with the theme '*Stories of Resilience <https://www.internetsociety.org/intercommunity/2020/stories-of-resilience/>*'. In the first presentation *Jane Coffin*, Senior Vice President, Internet Growth reflects on the year's progress in *expanding connectivity <https://www.internetsociety.org/issues/access/>* efforts. In the second, *Joseph Bishi,* Project Director, Murambinda Works talks about his experiences building and sustaining a *community network in Zimbabwe <https://youtu.be/rr-1PQK75yI%20(Community%20Networks,%20Zimbabwe)>*. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-5 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-5>* *TWITTER #12STREAMS #InternetGrowth #StoriesofResilience #AfricanInternetResilience #StoriesofResilience @JaneCoffin @JosephBishi* *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/InternetSociety/live <https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/12streams2020-5 <https://archive.org/details/12streams2020-5>* *ORIGINAL STREAM* *https://bit.ly/icomm2020 <https://bit.ly/icomm2020> *(EN/FR/ES) *Permalink* https://isoc.live/13290/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Gamevironments: Special Issue on "National(ism), Identity and Video Gaming" out now
by Lisa Kienzl 30 Dec '20

30 Dec '20

Dear Colleagues, we are really happy to share with you today news of GAMEVIRONMENTS newest Special Issue on "National(ism), Identity and Video Gaming" edited by Lisa Kienzl and Kathrin Trattner with contributions from: * "Glory to Trumpland! Critically Playing Border Games" by Melissa Kagen * Round Table Discussion on Nation(alism), Identity and Video Gaming with Megan Condis, Marijam Didžgalvytė, Georg Hobmeier and Souvik Mukherjee * "Playing America. An Introduction to American Culture through Video Games" by Michael Fuchs and Stefan Rabitsch * "Research Report on Curse the Fiends, Their Children, Too: Cultural Heritage and Subversion of Fictional Tropes in Bloodborne" by Sarah Zaidan, Richard Pilbeam and Elin Carstensdottir * Interview with Mira Wardhaningsih from StoryTale Studios on the Indonesian Horror Game "Pamali" * Interview with Déyfou-lah Sani Bah-Traore on the Togolese Game "Origin – the Rise of Dzitri" * "We. The Revolution, a Review. Vive la Révolution or Death and All His Friends" by Kevin Recher * "Kingdom Come: Deliverance. A Bohemian Forest Simulator" by Eugen Pfister You find all further information here: https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/completed-quests/. Best wishes, Lisa Kienzl managing editor gamevironments -- Dr.Dr. Lisa Kienzl, MA wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin | postdoctoral researcher Arbeitsgebiet Literaturen und Medien der Religionen | Literature and Media of Religions Universität Bremen | University of Bremen Institut für Religionswissenschaft und Religionspädagogik | Institute of Religious Studies and Religious Education Sportturm (SpT) Postfach 330 440 D-28359 Bremen T. +49 (0)421 218 67912 https://www.gamevironments.uni-bremen.de/

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8th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2021): First Call for Papers
by Announce Announcements 30 Dec '20

30 Dec '20

*** First Call for Papers *** 8th International Symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD 2021): "Democratizing AI Development" July 6-8, 2021, Atlantica Miramare Beach Hotel 4*, Limassol, Cyprus http://cyprusconferences.org/iseud2021/ End-user development (EUD) aims at empowering end users to develop and adapt systems at a level of complexity that is adequate to their expertise, practices, and skills. EUD may occur along the entire software lifecycle, with the purpose of making users able to participate in their artifact development, not only at design time, but also during actual use. Originally, EUD was conceived as a more general concept than end-user programming; thus, scholars proposed methods, techniques and tools that allow end users to modify or extend software artifacts, such as spreadsheets, web applications, video games, and mobile applications. In the co-called Internet of Things era, end-user development moved on to address the problem of defining and modifying the behavior of smart environments, including smart objects, pervasive displays, smart homes, smart cities, and so on. Therefore, the term "end-user development" acquired a broader meaning covering approaches, frameworks and socio-technical environments that allow end users to express themselves in crafting digital artifacts that encompass both software and hardware technology. Recent research and technological trends like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Cyber-Security, Robotics, and Industry 4.0, have contributed to renew the vision of end-user development, by providing tools and platforms that allow end users to harness the power of AI to create solutions involving Computer Vision, Image Processing, Conversational User Interfaces, as well as solutions for smart environments. Such developments lower the threshold for creating AI solutions, and expand the programmer base for such solutions, by extending AI application both for professional and discretionary use. IS-EUD is a bi-annual event for researchers and practitioners with an interdisciplinary approach to EUD, including: Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Human-Work Interaction Design, and related areas. IS-EUD 2021 Theme: Democratizing AI Development The 2021 edition of IS-EUD focuses on EUD for AI-based systems, where end users are called on to become end-user developers of intelligent agents, digital twins, collaborative and social robots. This edition would like to discuss the adoption of EUD in new fields, the proposal of novel EUD paradigms, and the impact of AI-based EUD in terms of user acceptability and appropriation. One of the most interesting topics in human-AI interaction is explainability of AI-based systems: research submissions presenting end- user oriented solutions to this problem will be particularly welcome. Theoretical and empirical work analyzing pros and cons of this new EUD wave, identifying requirements for end-user development of AI and acceptance of related solutions is invited. Software infrastructures and eco- systems supporting the reuse of solutions and the emergence of meta- design practices are of particular interest to this community, linking the challenges relating AI to topics central to the IS-EUD community. Conference Topics The conference welcomes contributions that: · describe new, simple and efficient environments for end-user development · describe new processes, methods and techniques for empowering users to create, modify and tailor digital artifacts · present case studies and design implications on challenges and practices of end-user development · develop theoretical concepts and foundations for the field of end-user development Specific topics include (but are not limited to) the following ones: · User-oriented orchestration of AI-based devices · Conversational interfaces for end-user development · End-user development for big data visualization and exploration · End-user development for collaborative robotics · End-user development for social robotics · End-user development in Industry 4.0 · End-user development and explainable AI-based systems · Cybersecurity and end-user development · End-user development in daily life · Technologies and infrastructures for end-user development · Empirical studies of end-user development · Recommender systems to support end-user development · Cultures of participation and meta-design approaches · Technology acceptance and adoption studies of end-user development technologies · Evaluation of end-user development technologies · Supporting creative work through end-user development Submissions We invite two types of paper submissions: 1. Regular papers, up to 16 pages, describing original unpublished research making a substantial contribution to the research field 2. Short papers, up to 8 pages, describing original unpublished research, making a small but solid contribution to the field All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. The review process for this category is double-blind, thus submissions must be anonymized. Accepted papers (both regular and short) will appear in the archival proceedings of IS-EUD 2021, published by Springer in the Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series, and will be presented in plenary sessions of the conference. Workshop proposals are invited (max 6 pages) aligned to the themes of the conference. Workshops provide an informal setting where participants have the opportunity to discuss specific topics in an atmosphere that fosters the active exchange of ideas. Workshops can be half day or one-day long and will be held on July 6, 2021. Accepted workshop proposals will be included in the IS-EUD 2021 adjunct proceedings, which will be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication. Submissions of regular papers, short papers and workshop proposals should indicate in the title page "Regular", "Short" or "Workshop" respectively. Demonstration and Work in Progress papers are also welcomed. A Demonstration paper (max 6 pages) should be structured according to the following: · Abstract (150 words maximum) · Topics to be covered and their relevance to the EUD community · Detailed description of the planned demonstration activity · Diagrams or screenshots (if relevant) · Supporting documentation (e.g., project website) · References Work in Progress submissions (max 6 pages) are intended for presenting preliminary results or tentative findings and position papers. The authors of accepted contributions will have the opportunity to give an oral presentation during parallel sessions. Finally, the IS-EUD Doctoral Consortium is intended to bring together PhD students working on theory and application of EUD. We particularly encourage students that are about half-way through their doctoral research to submit doctoral consortium contributions (max 6 pages) describing the topic of their PhD, their approach and a summary of their progress. Demonstration, Work in Progress and Doctoral Consortium submissions should indicate in the title page "Demo", "WiP" or "DC" respectively. Accepted submissions will be included in IS-EUD 2021 adjunct proceedings, which will be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication. Submissions of all types should be carefully formatted according to the Springer LNCS format: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… and should be submitted through the Easy Chair system at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iseud2021 Important Dates · Regular and Short papers submission: March 8, 2021 · Notification: March 30, 2021 · Camera-ready: April 30, 2021 · Workshop proposal submission: March 8, 2021 · Notification: March 15, 2021 · Camera-ready: April 30, 2021 · Demonstration and Work in Progress submission: April 7, 2021 · Notification: April 21, 2021 · Camera-ready: April 30, 2021 · Doctoral Consortium submission: April 7, 2021 · Notification: April 30, 2021 · Camera-ready: May 15, 2021 Organizers General Chairs · Panos Markopoulos (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) · George A. Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Program Chairs · Daniela Fogli (University of Brescia, Italy) · Daniel Tetteroo (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) Short papers Chairs · Barbara Rita Barricelli (University of Brescia, Italy) · Simone Borsci (University of Twente, The Netherlands) Work in Progress Chairs · Jelle Van Dijk (University of Twente, The Netherlands) · Carmen Santoro (ISTI-CNR, Italy) Demonstration Chair · Stefano Valtolina (University of Milan, Italy) Workshop Chairs · Styliani Kleanthous (Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus) · Simone Stumpf (City University London, UK) Doctoral Consortium Chairs · Monica Maceli (Pratt Institute, USA) · Antonio Piccinno (University of Bari, Italy)

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Call for workshops at ICWSM-2021
by aoir＠ognyanova.net 30 Dec '20

30 Dec '20

Dear all, Please consider submitting workshop proposals to the ICWSM-2021 conference to be held June 7-10 2021 in Atlanta, GA and online. You can find the full call here: [1]https://www.icwsm.org/2021/index.html#workshops Please submit your proposals to [2]workshops(a)icwsm.org by January 22, 2021. Feel free to use the same e-mail address to send any questions you might have. Regards, Oana Balalau, Katherine Ognyanova, and Daniel Romero ICWSM-21: CALL FOR WORKSHOPS WORKSHOPS AT THE 15TH INTERNATIONAL AAAI CONFERENCE ON WEB AND SOCIAL MEDIA * Submission Deadline: January 22, 2021 * Proposal Submission Email: [3]workshops(a)icwsm.org * Notification of acceptance: January 30, 2021 The ICWSM-2021 Committee invites proposals for Workshops Day at the 15th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-2021). The Workshops Day will be held on June 7th, 2021. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to meet and discuss issues with a selected focus -- providing an informal setting for active exchange among researchers and developers from a wide range of disciplines, including social science and computer science. Workshops are an excellent forum for exploring emerging approaches and task areas, bridging gaps between the social sciences and computing, and elucidating results of exploratory research. Members of all segments of the social media research community are encouraged to submit proposals. To foster interaction and exchange of ideas, the workshops will be kept small, with up to 40 participants. The format of workshops will be determined by their organizers. The two main criteria for the selection of the workshops will be the following: * The organizers encourage workshops that promote different types of activities, including challenges, games, and brainstorming, and networking sessions. The organizers discourage workshops that are structured as mini-conferences dominated by long talks and short discussions. Workshops should leave ample time for discussions and interaction between the participants and should also encourage the submission and presentation of position papers that discuss new research ideas. * The workshop should have the potential to attract the interest of researchers in computer science and social science. Proposals involving people of different backgrounds in the organizing committee and addressing topics at the intersection of different disciplines will have a higher chance of acceptance. Workshop organizers who want to publish the papers from their workshop (or significant portions of it) will have the opportunity to do so through workshop proceedings by the AAAI Press. For a list of last year's workshops see here: [4]https://www.icwsm.org/2020/index.html#workshops_schedule Important Dates * Workshop proposal submission deadline: January 22, 2021 * Workshop acceptance notification: January 30, 2021 * Workshop papers submission: March 27, 2021 * Workshop paper acceptance notification: April 10, 2021 * Workshop final camera-ready paper due: April 17, 2021 * ICWSM-2021 Workshops Day: June 7, 2021 Workshop Chairs * Oana Balalau * Katherine Ognyanova * Daniel Romero Contact E-mail: [5]workshops(a)icwsm.org -- Katherine Ognyanova, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Rutgers University School of Communication and Information 4 Huntington St., New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Web: [6]www.kateto.net, Twitter: @ognyanova References 1. https://www.icwsm.org/2021/index.html#workshops 2. mailto:workshops@icwsm.org 3. mailto:workshops@icwsm.org 4. https://www.icwsm.org/2020/index.html#workshops_schedule 5. mailto:workshops@icwsm.org 6. http://www.kateto.net/

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12 Streams 2020 #4 – Future Trending in Programmable Telecoms – Mark Daley
by Joly MacFie 29 Dec '20

29 Dec '20

After yesterday's 2 hour marathon, a quick one today. I always say that, for me, AfPIF is the single best ISOC event. It's always full of eye opening stuff about peering. This year's virtual event was no exception. This one, in the 'Beyond Peering' session, in particular. Later in the session, there was an actual live demo <https://archive.org/download/afpeering2/EN07_IX_API_Demo_-_Mark_Daley_%26_M…> of an example IXP API. ISOC Live posted: "Today, Tuesday December 29 2020, at 7:00pm EST (00:00 UTC) in the fourth instalment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ 2020 highlights, we feature a presentation from the second in Virtual Peering Series – Africa, which had the t" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-4>Today, *Tuesday December 29 2020*, at *7:00pm EST* (00:00 UTC) in the fourth instalment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ 2020 highlights, we feature a presentation from the second in *Virtual Peering Series – Africa <https://www.afpif.org/virtual-peering-series-africa/>*, which had the theme '*Beyond Peering <https://www.afpif.org/virtual-peering-series-africa/beyond-peering/>*'. *Mark Daley* – Director, Digital Strategy & Business Development, Epsilon Telecommunications, gives a presentation '*Future Trending in Programmable Telecoms*' and talks about how IXPs might implement APIs. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-4 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-4>* *TWITTER #12STREAMS <http://bit.ly/2t8HX2J> #IPeerinAfrica @isoc_africa @AfIX @markodaley1 @Epsilontel* *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/InternetSociety/live <https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/12streams2020-4 <https://archive.org/details/12streams2020-4>* *ORIGINAL STREAM* *https://isoc.live/12798/ <https://isoc.live/12798/>* . *Permalink* https://isoc.live/13285/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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12 Streams 2020 #3 – Celebrating NSFnet, both coming and going!
by Joly MacFie 28 Dec '20

28 Dec '20

What comes out of this is not only how vital the NSFnet was to the acceleration of Internet establishment, but how vital two people - Al Gore and Dennis Jennings - were to the whole process, Al Gore in securing funding and regulatory easement, and Dennis Jennings in his insistence that no node would receive that funding unless they implemented TCP IP. And then Gore further facilitated the transition to the commercial Internet we know today. ISOC Live posted: "Today, Monday December 28 2020, at 7:00pm EST (00:00 UTC) in the third installment of the Internet Society Livestreaming‘s ‘12 Days of Streams‘ 2020 highlights, we feature two celebrations of the National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET). From 1985-199" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-3>Today, *Monday December 28 2020*, at *7:00pm EST* (00:00 UTC) in the third installment of the *Internet Society Livestreaming <https://isoc.live/>*‘s ‘*12 Days of Streams <https://isoc.live/?s=%2312streams>*‘ 2020 highlights, we feature two celebrations of the *National Science Foundation Network <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation_Network>* (NSFNET). From 1985-1995 the NSFnet was a pivotal United States program that laid the foundation of the global Internet. was a pivotal United States program that laid the foundation of the global Internet. First we have excerpts *35th Anniversary Celebratory Event <https://isoc.live/13170/>* on December 8 which marked its founding. Earlier in the year, on April 30 '*Internet Independence Day <https://isoc.live/12014/>*', a panel marked its demise, which was the moment that the Internet fully transitioned from a government to a private enterprise. *SPEAKERS* *NSFNET 35th Anniversary Celebratory Event * *Vint Cerf*, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google *Al Gore*, former Vice President, USA *Dennis Jennings*, former First Program Director for Networking, NSF *Howard Pfeffer*, President and CEO, Internet2 *Andrew Sullivan*, President and CEO, Internet Society *Margaret Martonosi*, Assistant Director for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), NSF *MODERATOR:* *Ana Hunsinger*, Vice President, Community Engagement, Internet2 *Internet Independence Day* *Reed Hundt* (former FCC Chairman) *Esther Dyson* (first CEO of ICANN) *James Lewis* (SVP CSIS) *Tom Evslin* (founder ITXC) *Andrew Odlyzko* (former Bell Labs and Prof U MN) *Gary Shapiro*, President, Consumer Technology Association *MODERATOR:* *Daniel Berninger*, VCXC *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-3 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/12streams2020-3>* *TWITTER #12STREAMS <http://bit.ly/2t8HX2J> #NSFNET <https://bit.ly/3oybLNL> * @Internet2 @internetsociety @vgcerf @algore Dennis Jennings @NSF Howard Pfeffer @SullivanISOC @margmartonosi #internetindependence <https://twitter.com/hashtag/internetindependence?f=realtime&src=hash> #iid25 @edyson @james_a_lewis @rehundt @GaryShapiro @tevslin Andrew Odlyzko *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/InternetSociety/live <https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/12streams2020-3 <https://archive.org/details/12streams2020-3>* Comment <https://isoc.live/13276/#respond> See all comments <https://isoc.live/13276/#comments> *Permalink* https://isoc.live/13276/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Reminder: communication +1 seeking proposals for Volume 8, “Crises and Communication" Due Jan 10th 2021
by Peter Royal 28 Dec '20

28 Dec '20

Reminder: communication +1 seeking proposals for Volume 8, “Crises and Communication" Due Jan 10th 2021 Edited by Zachary McDowell, Peter Royal, and Justin Raden Notwithstanding the current situation, periods of crisis and upheaval exacerbate inequities in our communication infrastructure and throw into sharp relief the profound barriers to access. In such fraught moments, we can glimpse the extent to which our systems of mediation differentially serve and confound us according to our positionality within these systems. To understand the effects of crises on communication, it is important to consider the history of systems of mediation that have both limited and encouraged access, participation, and equity across knowledge, space, and culture. What have crises, both present, perpetual, and past, intimated about flaws, gaps, and inequities in systems of communication that are overlooked or disregarded under “normal” (if “normal” exists) conditions? How might we think about how infrastructure relates to the crises and thus the infrastructures of communication are the infrastructures of communication in/justice? How and why are people and communities affected differently in these crises, and how do systems of communication and mediation both mitigate and compound these phenomena? Questions of meaning making, truth, misinformation, and access are welcomed within our new collection. In particular, bringing new context and contextualization (whether philosophical, historical, archeological, rhetorical, ecological, or otherwise) to query contemporary crises of communicative access issues are welcome. Please submit short proposals of no more than 500 words by January 10th, 2021 to communicationplusone(a)gmail.com Upon invitation, full text submissions will be due April 5th, 2021, with expected publication in August, 2021. Invitations will be sent out no later than the end of January 2021. About the Journal The aim of communication +1 is to promote new approaches to and open new horizons in the study of communication from an interdisciplinary perspective. We are particularly committed to promoting research that seeks to constitute new areas of inquiry and to explore new frontiers of theoretical activities linking the study of communication to both established and emerging research programs in the humanities, social sciences, and arts. Other than the commitment to rigorous scholarship, communication +1 sets no specific agenda. Its primary objective is to create a space for thoughtful experiments and for communicating these experiments. communication +1 is an open access journal supported by University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries and the Department of Communication communicationplusone.org <http://communicationplusone.org/>. Editors Briankle G. Chang, University of Massachusetts Amherst Zachary J. McDowell, University of Illinois at Chicago Advisory Board Sean Johnson Andrews, Columbia College Chicago Lisa Åkervall, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Nathalie Casemajor, University of Québec Outaouais Jimena Canales, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Bernard Geoghegan, Kings College, London Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill David Gunkel, Northern Illinois University Peter Krapp, University of California Irvine Catherine Malabou, Kingston University, United Kingdom Jussi Parikka, University of Southampton, United Kingdom John Durham Peters, Yale University Amit Pinchevski,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Florian Sprenger, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany Jonathan Sterne, McGill University Ted Striphas, University of Colorado, Boulder Christina Vagt, University of California Santa Barbara Greg Wise, Arizona State University For more information about the project in general, as well as short pieces, lectures, and interviews, visit communicationplusone.org <http://communicationplusone.org/>. For more information or to participate in the communicationplusone.org <http://communicationplusone.org/> project, please email communicationplusone(a)gmail.com

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space travel, science fiction, and religion
by Paul Levinson 28 Dec '20

28 Dec '20

just published https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/1/16/htm -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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