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Request for placing a new posting in AIR-L List
by Ms. SIU Man Shun Malina 22 Sep '20

22 Sep '20

Dear Sir/Madam, Appreciate if you could help posting the message below to your entire AIR-L list. Thanks. Best, Malina Malina Siu Conference Secretary Art Machines 2 ---------------------- Call for Submissions - Art Machines 2: International Symposium on Machine Learning and Art We are now calling for submissions for Art Machines 2: International Symposium on Machine Learning and Art 2021, which will take place between 10th-13th June 2021 at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. "Art Machines 2," will bring together Academics, Artists, and Professionals in the field of Computational Media Art in a four-day symposium on the topic of Machine Learning and Art. After the success of "Art Machines" in 2019, this much-anticipated follow-up symposium will provide the opportunity for in depth assessment of the impact of artificial intelligence on the making of computational art and media, and an exploration of the conditions of existence, range and futures of computationally based art and media. Media art does not exist in a vacuum and critical concern of the conference will be both to understand and practice ways in which media art can intervene, both critically and constructively, in the ongoing construction of social reality by machine learning algorithms. The conference will comprise academic key notes, plenary panel presentations and discussions, scholarly and art practice paper presentations, an art exhibition and student-led workshops. Open Call Topics * Sound Art * Immersive Media * Digital Cinema * Bio Art * Software Art * Digital Animation * Digital Photography * Robotics * Gaming * Digital Poetics * Digital Humanities * Creative Coding * Digital Fabrication * Physical Computing * Digital Preservation * Curatorial Practice * Brain-Computer Interface * Pedagogy * Aesthetics * Ethics * Politics * Philosophy * Other Topics Pertaining to AI, Machine Learning and Art Open Call Formats 1. Research Papers 2. Scholarly Abstracts 3. Artistic Project Abstracts 4. Art Projects for Exhibition Submission deadline: 15th December 2020 (23:59 HK local time) To learn more about the Symposium, please visit our website: https://www.cityu.edu.hk/artmachines2/ For details on the submission requirements, please click https://www.cityu.edu.hk/artmachines2/submission-types For enquiries, please contact us via email at smpapers(a)cityu.edu.hk<mailto:smpapers@cityu.edu.hk>. You are also welcome to follow us on these channels: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ArtMachines2 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artmachines2 Disclaimer: This email (including any attachments) is for the use of the intended recipient only and may contain confidential information and/or copyright material. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and delete this email and all copies from your system. Any unauthorized use, disclosure, reproduction, copying, distribution, or other form of unauthorized dissemination of the contents is expressly prohibited.

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WEBCAST TODAY – Pacific Women in ICT virtual meetup
by Joly MacFie 22 Sep '20

22 Sep '20

This is just about to kick off. ISOC Live posted: "On Tuesday September 22 2020 at 6pm FJT (06:00 UTC) the Internet Society Pacific Islands Chapter (PICISOC) will host the first Pacific Women in ICT virtual meetup. The event is expected to be a virtual gathering of women in ICT in the region – a meet up, " [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/picwict>On *Tuesday September 22 2020* at *6pm FJT* (06:00 UTC) the *Internet Society Pacific Islands Chapter <https://www.picisoc.org/>* (PICISOC) will host the first *Pacific Women in ICT virtual meetup <https://www.picisoc.org/2020/09/20/pacific-women-in-ict-virtual-meetup>*. The event is expected to be a virtual gathering of women in ICT in the region – a meet up, an informal catch up and an update on how COVID19 has affected the work in the communities and how our regional women adapted. *LIVESTREAM: http://livestream.com/internetsociety/picwict <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/picwict>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3ckdvpc <https://bit.ly/3ckdvpc>* *TWITTER #PICwICT <https://bit.ly/PICwICT> @picisoc* *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/isocasiapacific/live <https://www.facebook.com/isocasiapacific/live>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/picwict <https://archive.org/details/picwict>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/12707/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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CARGC Fellows Conference: Deadline extension
by Bridges, Lauren 21 Sep '20

21 Sep '20

Dear AoIR community, What comes after the now? The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the University of Pennsylvania is inviting submissions to our 2021 early career conference, “No Going Back: Global Communication and Post-Pandemic Politics,” in an effort to answer this question. This admission-free conference will be held virtually on April 8 and 9, 2021. We invite early career scholars, as well as artists, activists, journalists, and others, to submit abstracts for consideration. The CFP can be found here: https://bit.ly/2Vh2Tjo, and the submission form and guidelines can be found here: https://bit.ly/39gXrmj. The deadline to submit is now October 15, 2020. Questions may be directed to: cargcfellows(a)gmail.com. Best, Lauren Bridges CARGC Fellow

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CFP AAG 2021: Re-spatializing Digital Labor
by ryan burns 21 Sep '20

21 Sep '20

*Re-spatializing Digital Labor* Organizers: Ryan Burns and Luke Bergmann Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Seattle, WA, April 7-11, 2021 It is now an urgent moment for geographers to revisit how we think of the spaces of digital labor. By now, the platforms mediating and organizing work are well-known, and their implications increasingly theorized. UberEats, Lyft, Didi Chuxing, and Fiverr scaffold the gig economy wherein workers perform ad hoc jobs delegated through the platform; Yelp, Amazon, Baidu, and OpenStreetMap coordinate volunteered data production; and tech workers for major corporations like Google, Apple, Tesla, and Alibaba reshape regional political-economies. The geographies of this digital labor are critical to understanding its social, political, and economic implications, but scholars have primarily made sense of its geographies by engaging narrow conceptions of "space" and "labor" that obscure important relations and processes. Digital labor is often understood to occur within Euclidean geometries, under the premise of remuneration, and through Marxian conceptions of value. At the same time, digital labor discussions often under-theorize immaterial and affective labor, attentional economies, and moral economies. A more planetary view of digital labour would further draw out its uneven geographies -- with geopolitical implications -- and emphasize new empirical imperatives such as diversifying case studies or mobilizing comparative approaches. In short, broadening the purview of what digital labor is and where it happens can challenge some of the conceptual framings that have driven digital labor studies to date. This session seeks to rethink the spatial frameworks through which geographers grasp work conducted in and through the digital. In turn, we hope to reclaim many forms of (digital) work whose spatialities have occluded them from our attention. We welcome interdisciplinary submissions from scholars looking broadly at the intersections of space, labor, and the digital, and their combined social, political, and economic implications. Themes of submissions could relate, but not be limited, to: -Relational, representational, networked, hybrid, or topological spaces of digital labor -Immaterial digital labor of affects, emotions, and "experiences" -Spaces of/in/for/through digital social reproduction -(Re)visualizing non-Euclidean geometries of digital labor -Moral economies producing spaces for digital labor and its commodification -Attentional economies and their spatialities, political-economies, and epistemological framings -Automation of digital labor: its spatial technologies, socio-political technologies, and the digital-material spaces for their manifestations -Valorized practices of non-work, like games, CAPTCHA, information search, play, and communication -Using digital labor to question static regional-geographic categories like "Global South" and "territory" To be considered for inclusion in this session, please email your abstract of 250 words to ryan.burns1(a)ucalgary.ca and luke.bergmann(a)ubc.ca by *October 19, 2020*. Please note that the deadline for registering and submitting your abstract in the AAG system is October 29th, 2020. Best, Ryan and Luke -- Ryan Burns, PhD Department of Geography Engaging Open Data Research O'Brien Institute for Public Health Book Review Editor, *The Canadian Geographer* University of Calgary http://burnsr77.github.io

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We Are Not Sick presents: Sad by Design, the Theory Music Album
by Geert Lovink 21 Sep '20

21 Sep '20

Good day, this time no call for papers, conference announcement or job opening but info about our music theory album that just came out. Background info here: https://networkcultures.org/geert/2020/09/13/we-are-not-sick/. Links to music platforms for listening and downloads: https://songwhip.com/wearenotsick/sad-by-design. Website of the band: https://wearenotsick.com. Yours, Geert & John

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WEBCAST MON-FRI – the 6th annual South Eastern European Dialogue on Internet Governance #SEEDIG6
by Joly MacFie 21 Sep '20

21 Sep '20

Good program at SEEDIG, managed by Diplo Foundation. Plenty of ISOC representation, including below *Monday* 9:15 UTC Open and decentralised Internet: governance challenges Ceren Ünal | Regional Policy Manager – Europe, Internet Society *Tuesday * 9:00 UTC Technological developments in SEE+ Jelena Cosic | Internet Society Serbia 10:30 UTC Living Library Ceren Ünal | Regional Policy Manager – Europe, Internet Society 13:00 UTC 5G: hype soon to become reality? Nigel Hickson | Internet Society Consultant (co-moderator) *Wednesday* 13:00 UTC Environmental sustainability through the lenses of digital development Lianna Galstyan | External Relations Manager & Board member, Internet Society Armenia (co-moderator) *Thursday* 09:00 UTC Privacy and data protection in SEE+ during the COVID-19 pandemic Ceren Ünal | Regional Policy Manager – Europe, Internet Society (co-moderator) ISOC Live posted: "On Monday-Friday 21-25 September 2020 the 6th annual South Eastern European Dialogue on Internet Governance (SEEDIG) will be convened online. SEEDIG6 brings together a wide variety of stakeholders to discuss some of the most pressing Internet and digital " [image: YouTube] <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuhFc6SEi387BaOP1kAWgxg>On *Monday-Friday 21-25 September 2020* the 6th annual *South Eastern European Dialogue on Internet Governance <https://seedig.diplomacy.edu/>* (SEEDIG) will be convened online. SEEDIG6 brings together a wide variety of stakeholders to discuss some of the most pressing Internet and digital policy issues in South Eastern Europe and the neighbouring area (SEE+), from digitalisation and the digital economy, to online privacy and cybercrime. *LIVESTREAMS* *https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuhFc6SEi387BaOP1kAWgxg <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuhFc6SEi387BaOP1kAWgxg>* *https://www.facebook.com/seedig2020/live <https://www.facebook.com/seedig2020/live>* *PROGRAMME https://seedig.diplomacy.edu/#programme <https://seedig.diplomacy.edu/#programme>*(UTC+2) *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://seedig.typeform.com/to/MSajfduQ <https://seedig.typeform.com/to/MSajfduQ>* *TWITTER #seedig6 <https://bit.ly/seedig6> * *Permalink* https://isoc.live/12736/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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New IJPP Edited Collection: "Media and Politics in the Global South and in Global Perspective", free until the end of October 2020
by Cristian Vaccari 21 Sep '20

21 Sep '20

Dear colleagues, I hope this email finds you well. The virtual conference of The International Journal of Press/Politics starts today<https://cristianvaccari.com/2020/07/21/program-of-the-2020-international-jo…>, with more than 500 participants from 74 different countries. To celebrate what I hope will be a global conversation around media and politics, we have put together a special collection of articles published in the journal in the past few years that focus on media and politics in the so-called Global South and in a global perspective. The special collection is available at https://journals.sagepub.com/page/hij/research-perspectives and you can find the list of the articles and direct links to them below. I hope you will find this initiative useful. Please feel free to share this email with anyone you think might be interested. If you can join us for at least part of the conference, please sign up for free at any time via https://t.co/eXY83mmtyD?amp=1. ********************************************************************************************** Media and Politics in the Global South and in Global Perspective A special edited collection by The International Journal of Press/Politics. All articles are available for free until the end of October 2020. Latin America The Instrumental Mediated Visibility of Violence: The 2013 Protests in Brazil and the Limitations of the Protest Paradigm<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161220923984> by César Jiménez-Martínez Covering Protests on Twitter: The Influences on Journalists’ Social Media Portrayals of Left- and Right-Leaning Demonstrations in Brazil<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161219882653> by Rachel R. Mourão, Weiyue Chen Serving Consumers, Citizens, or Elites: Democratic Roles of Journalism in Chilean Newspapers and Television News<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161217736888> by Daniel C. Hallin, Claudia Mellado Perceived Popularity and Online Political Dissent: Evidence from Twitter in Venezuela<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161219872942> by Juan S. Morales Strategic Allies and the Survival of Critical Media under Repressive Conditions: An Empirical Analysis of Local Mexican Press<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161219843200> by Grisel Salazar Local-Level Authoritarianism, Democratic Normative Aspirations, and Antipress Harassment: Predictors of Threats to Journalists in Mexico<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161218786041> by Sallie Hughes, Mireya Márquez-Ramírez Reporting in Latin America: Issues and Perspectives on Investigative Journalism in the Region<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161218782397> by Magdalena Saldaña, Rachel R. Mourão Asia Poison If You Don’t Know How to Use It: Facebook, Democracy, and Human Rights in Myanmar<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161220919666> by Jenifer Whitten-Woodring, Mona S. Kleinberg, Ardeth Thawnghmung, Myat The Thitsar Donor Power and the News: The Influence of Foundation Funding on International Public Service Journalism<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161217693394> by Martin Scott, Mel Bunce, Kate Wright Examining the Roles of Political Social Network and Internal Efficacy on Social Media News Engagement: A Comparative Study of Six Asian Countries<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161218814480> by Michael Chan, Hsuan-Ting Chen, Francis L. F. Lee Africa Politicians in Newspaper News: Who Attracts Coverage in Kenyan Politics<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161220915719> by Kioko Ireri, Jimmy Ochieng China in Africa: An Analysis of the Effect of Chinese Media Expansion on African Public Opinion<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161216646733> by Catie Snow Bailard The Rally-Intensive Campaign: A Distinct Form of Electioneering in Sub-Saharan Africa and Beyond<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161219847952> by Dan Paget The Power of the “Audience-Public”: Interactive Radio in Africa<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161218779175> by Sharath Srinivasan, Stephanie Diepeveen Middle East Social Media and the Arab Spring: Politics Comes First<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161212471716> by Gadi Wolfsfeld, Elad Segev, Tamir Sheafer Networked Gatekeeping and Networked Framing on #Egypt<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161212474472> by Sharon Meraz, Zizi Papacharissi What Drives Media Use in Authoritarian Regimes? Extending Selective Exposure Theory to Iran<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161218808372> by Magdalena Wojcieszak, Erik C. Nisbet, Lea Kremer, Golnoosh Behrouzian, Carroll Glyn Unpacking Journalists’ (Dis)Trust: Expressions of Suspicion in the Narratives of Journalists Covering the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161219841902> by Tali Aharoni, Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt Europe Nothing Is True? The Credibility of News and Conflicting Narratives during “Information War” in Ukraine<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161217743258> by Joanna Szostek Comparative Investigating the Gap between Newspaper Journalists’ Role Conceptions and Role Performance in Nine European, Asian, and Latin American Countries<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161220910106> by Claudia Mellado, Cornelia Mothes, Daniel C. Hallin, María Luisa Humanes, Maria Lauber, Jacques Mick, Henry Silke, Colin Sparks, Adriana Amado, Sergey Davydov, Dasniel Oliver Detached or Interventionist? Comparing the Performance of Watchdog Journalism in Transitional, Advanced and Non-democratic Countries<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161219872155> by Mireya Márquez-Ramírez, Claudia Mellado, María Luisa Humanes, Adriana Amado, Daniel Beck, Sergey Davydov, Jacques Mick, Cornelia Mothes, Dasniel Olivera, Nikos Panagiotu, Sergio Roses, Henry Silke, Colin Sparks, Agnieszka Stępińska, Gabriella Szabó, Edson Tandoc, Jr., Haiyan Wang Protesting the Paradigm: A Comparative Study of News Coverage of Protests in Brazil, China, and India<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161216631114> by Saif Shahin, Pei Zheng, Heloisa Aruth Sturm, Deepa Fadnis Roaring Candidates in the Spotlight: Campaign Negativity, Emotions, and Media Coverage in 107 National Elections<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161220919093> by Jürgen Maier, Alessandro Nai Contesting Strategic Narratives in a Global Context: The World Watches the 2016 U.S. Election<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161218786426> by Randolph Kluver, Skye Cooley, Robert Hinck Framing the Taxation-Democratization Link: An Automated Content Analysis of Cross-National Newspaper Data<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161218771893> by Volha Kananovich Caught in the Nexus: A Comparative and Longitudinal Analysis of Public Trust in the Press<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161217740695> by Thomas Hanitzsch, Arjen Van Dalen, Nina Steindl Global Soft Power, Hard News: How Journalists at State-Funded Transnational Media Legitimize Their Work<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161220922832> by Kate Wright, Martin Scott, Mel Bunce May We Have Your Attention Please? Human-Rights NGOs and the Problem of Global Communication<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161213519132> by A. Trevor Thrall, Dominik Stecula, Diana Sweet ********************************************************************************************** All the best, Cristian Cristian Vaccari ****************************************************** Professor of Political Communication, Loughborough University<http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/socialsciences/staff/cristian-vaccari/> Co-Director, Centre for Research in Communication and Culture<https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crcc/> Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Press/Politics<http://hij.sagepub.com/> Program of the 2020 IJPP virtual conference: https://bit.ly/ijpp-20 ****************************************************** Personal website: https://cristianvaccari.com/ Google Scholar profile<http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3_TethEAAAAJ&hl=en> Twitter: @prof_vaccari<https://twitter.com/prof_vaccari> Student appointments: https://calendly.com/cristian-vaccari

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Deadline extended - JCEA special issue on Ethical Pluralism and Intercultural Information Ethics in Asian Contexts
by Charles M. Ess 21 Sep '20

21 Sep '20

Dear AoIRists, with the usual regrets for cross-postings and duplications, and request to forward to potentially relevant mailing lists and interested colleagues. Deadline extended - Special Issue: Ethical Pluralism and Intercultural Information Ethics in Asian Contexts Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia (JCEA), Vol 20, No 1 - Summer 2021 Invited editor: Charles M. Ess, University of Oslo (c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no) The early 1990s and the Internet’s rise as an engine of globalization forced a central task upon emerging Intercultural Information Ethics (IIE): how to conceptualize and implement a global information and computing ethics conjoining (quasi-) universal ethical norms and principles with a robust defense of local, culturally variable identities and practices? Discourses pitting a homogeneous imposition of Western values and norms against resistance to such homogenization for defending local cultural identities, but at the cost of potential fragmentation and isolation, first forced these issues. Increasing recognition of “computer-mediated colonization” – as Western-centric cultural norms and communicative preferences, embedded in ICT design, were imposed upon “target” cultures – made these concerns still more urgent. In response, ethical pluralisms (EPs), as conceptualizing connections (such as shared norms) preserving irreducible local differences, were developed and successfully implemented in both Western and non-Western contexts. But Western-based EPs remain open to critique. In Asia, EP is integral to conceptions of resonance and harmony in Daoist, Confucian, Buddhist, and Islamic traditions. Furthermore, Chinese and Indian technological innovation hubs have also emerged, grounding further exploration of Asian-rooted conceptions of EP, resonance, and harmony, which remain central to an IIE opposing colonizing adaptation of Western values and norms in Non-western cultures. These are especially critical vis-à-vis the ongoing encroachment of advanced ICTs, e.g. AI, Big Data, the IoT, “surveillance capitalism” and the Chinese Social Credit System, as increasingly defining our cultural lives. Our primary questions: what sorts of EP and similar notions of resonance or harmony might help resolve these central problems in the contemporary developments of (East) Asia? And: do earlier IIE traditions and evaluation of “radical” technologies fruitfully respond to even “more radical” emerging ICT challenges evoked by contemporary, far more powerful ICTs? This special issue of the JCEA invites papers that deal with theoretical and practical dimensions of EP, notions of harmony and resonance in contemporary Asian contexts, and/or traditional/recent resonances of ICT-related challenges. We are particularly interested in but not limited to: · Critical evaluations and possible expansions of contemporary EP, especially as oriented towards / grounded in (East) Asian contexts · Concrete examples of EP in praxis – whether successful or not in sustaining shared norms and irreducible local differences in (East) Asian contexts · Theoretical and practical explorations of (East) Asian relatives of Western-centric pluralisms from Confucian, Buddhist, and other local traditions – e.g., of resonance, harmony, etc. – that might offer advantages over EP on both theoretical and practical grounds. Please submit your 500-word abstract (maximum) in English to c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no by October 15, 2020 (subject line should include “JCEA Special Issue”). Deadlines Abstract Submission: October 15, 2020 Abstract Notification: November 15, 2020 Article Submission: December 31, 2020 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: March 15, 2021 Final submission of revised papers: June 1, 2021 For more information about the JCEA, refer to https://jceasia.org/ Many thanks and best regards, charles ess -- Professor Emeritus Department of Media and Communication University of Oslo <http://www.hf.uio.no/imk/english/people/aca/charlees/index.html> Fellow, Siebold-Collegiums Institute for Advanced Studies, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany Co-chair & Editor, Internet Research Ethics 3.0 <https://aoir.org/reports/ethics3.pdf> 3rd edition of Digital Media Ethics now out: <http://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509533428> Postboks 1093 Blindern 0317 Oslo, Norway c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no

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Webinar: “Events” in the Post-“Information” Age
by Natalia Grincheva 20 Sep '20

20 Sep '20

*** With apologies for x-posting*** You are welcome to attend the following webinar: *September 25: “Events” in the Post-“Information” Age* A/Professor Julia Sonnevend and Dr. Bernard Geoghegan Will the word information acquire new meanings under the pressure of technological transformations caused by the Covid-19 digital lockdown? How will people understand, define and experience major or minor events when they are limited to virtual encounters, online meetings and social media catch-ups? The webinar will interrogate old meanings and explore emerging connotations of what becomes information and whither the nature of an event in the seamless enfolding of the two in the online world. *Register here:* https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/research/digital-studio/programs/seminar-series… *Date & time:* September 25, 2020 New York (Eastern Daylight Time): 8:00 AM London (Greenwich Mean Time +1): 1:00 PM Melbourne (Australian Eastern Standard Time): 10:00 PM This webinar is a part of the series: *Redefining Digital Keywords* *From Digital Archaisms to (Post)Pandemic Neologisms* (Digital Studio, the University of Melbourne) *Register here: * https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/research/digital-studio/programs/seminar-series *Synopsis:* In 2016 Benjamin Peters published his edited collection *Digital Keywords* <https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691167336/digital-keywords> (Princeton University Press). With provocative short essays from international digital media scholars in anthropology, history, political science, philosophy, religious studies, rhetoric, science and technology studies, and sociology, the book explored and critiqued the rich vocabulary of the growing field of digital humanities on 25 keywords, ranging from meme to surrogate, from forum to mirror, from cloud to digital. The pandemic outbreak has challenged and reconfigured human experience across physical, social and digital realities, and hence urges us to revisit our digital keywords vocabulary. This global webinar series will bring together leading digital humanities scholars to reflect upon their original contributions to the *Digital Keywords. *Each webinar will focus on two digital phenomena and their corresponding keywords to explore how their meanings are changing in the face of disruptions caused by lockdowns or social distancing, and what new cultural practices, social challenges and political implications emerge around the new digital vocabulary. Series curated by Dr Natalia Grincheva (Digital Studio Senior Research Fellow). *Schedule* *October 9: “Geeking” and “Prototyping” the “New Normal”* A/Professor Christina Dunbar-Hester and Professor Fred Turner Could we imagine and prototype human life in the post-pandemic world? Will geeks rule in the emerging social conditions of the new normal, or will they simply become extinct in the digital mainstreaming of daily life? The webinar will tackle the question of human typologies in new social formations and online networks. *October 23: “Sharing” and “Gaming” in the Post-pandemic World* Dr. Nicholas A. John and Professor Saugata Bhaduri How do we share online versus offline and what games can we play when limited within digital reality? What are the consequences on our health and well-being of non-stop digital sharing of our lives and emotions? And is it possible to transfer sport matches, games, and even such world sport mega-events as the Olympics into the digital world? The webinar will aim to answer these questions in conversation with Dr Nicholas A. John and Professor Saugata Bhaduri. *November 6: “Zooming” In and Out to Examine the “Virus”* Professor Jodie McVernon and Professor Sean Cubitt What new meanings of words such as zoom and virus did the Convid-19 outbreak instigate? How did we move from ‘Google it’ to ‘Let’s Zoom’, and what are the economic and political implications of platform-imperialism in the time of the 24/7 digital communication? What are the real and potential powers of online and biological viruses to disrupt, challenge, improve or destroy human life? The final webinar will facilitate a cross-disciplinary conversation between researchers at the University of Melbourne to share insights on the role of digital technologies in the current pandemic with its consequences for moral, social and physical being.

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PhD in Media, Technology and Democracy
by Patricia Aufderheide 18 Sep '20

18 Sep '20

I'm excited to announce that even in crazy times, we have fully-funded PhD slots for our accelerated, three-year program. I'm thrilled to get to work with scholars such as Laura DeNardis, Aram Sinnreich, Saif Shahin, Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Filippo Trevisan, Benjamin Stokes, and many more. We collaborate with our law school, our School of International Service, and School of Public Affairs to offer our students the courses they want, in tailored programs. My colleagues have all been such great mentors to our students, who've gotten jobs (and even tenure!) at research and teaching universities, won prestigious postdocs, and gone to work for nonprofits pushing for human rights in the tech sector. Our profs and students all believe that today's urgent issues are located at the intersection of media, technology and democracy--now more than ever. Please spread the word. For an intro to the program, check this out. <https://www.american.edu/soc/communication-studies/phd/> If they want to jump straight to an application, it's here. <https://american.elluciancrmrecruit.com/ApplySOC/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2…> And of course I'm always available to field questions, and can also introduce applicants to alums and to current students. Thanks so much! <https://american.elluciancrmrecruit.com/ApplySOC/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2…> Sign In<https://american.elluciancrmrecruit.com/ApplySOC/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2…> American University School of Communication Office of Graduate Admissions McKinley Building 4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington, DC 20016-8044 202-885-2040 | gradcomm(a)american.edu. If you are having technical issues, please visit the AU help desk for assistance. american.elluciancrmrecruit.com Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor, School of Communication (she/her/hers) PhD Program Director Founder, Center for Media & Social Impact American University 4400 Massachusetts Av., NW American University, Washington, DC 20016-8017 McKinley Hall 323 @paufder @cmsimpact cmsimpact.org<http://cmsimpact.org> paufder(a)american.edu<mailto:paufder@american.edu> 202-885-2069 office 240-643-4805 mobile Reclaiming Fair Use--t<https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/022637419X?pf_rd_p=d1f45e03-8b73-4c9a-9be…>he second edition is out, with new stories, quizzes and entirely new chapters on the surprising success of fair use in enabling creativity!

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