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Call for Paper - Politicizing Agency in Digital Play after Humanism - Convergence (Special Issue)
by Ruffino, Paolo 23 Aug '20

23 Aug '20

Politicizing Agency in Digital Play after Humanism Convergence (special issue) Guest Editors: Aleena Chia (Simon Fraser University) aleena.chia(a)sfu.ca Paolo Ruffino (University of Liverpool) p.ruffino(a)liverpool.ac.uk Since its inception, the humanistic field of digital game studies has been concerned with the politics and aesthetics of interactivity and its delimitation of player agency in relation to other screen-based media. Drawing from media and cultural studies, the humanistic study of games has adopted normative frameworks that divide audiences into active and passive, and media into new and old, in order to evaluate players' power over and participation within architected environments. Today, discussions about agency in games has diversified from the analysis of interactive forms (Manovich 1996; Laurel 1997; Ndalianis 1999) to include considerations about the contexts of participation and co-creation in game production (Banks 2013; Joseph 2018) diversity and inclusion in game representations and communities (Ruberg and Shaw 2017; Gray and Leonard 2018; Stang 2019), and affordances of bodies, devices, and platforms (Keogh 2018; Brock and Fraser 2018; Nieborg and Poell 2018) that make up assemblages of play (Taylor 2009; De Paoli and Kerr 2010; Apperley and Jayemanne 2012). In 2018, The Velvet Light Trap featured a special issue on power, freedom, and control in game studies, and GAME: Italian Journal of Game Studies is planning a special issue on "Claiming Video Game Agency as an Interdisciplinary Concept." Agency continues to be a keyword in game studies. Agency is, however, at an inflection point in the cognate fields of critical theory and media studies. Marxist feminists have proposed ecological frameworks for living ethically in the Anthropocene by reconceptualizing capitalism through complex interdependencies and multispecies commons instead of the agency of individuals or institutions (Roelvink and Gibson-Graham 2009; Tsing 2015). Post-humanists have critiqued Western humanist ideals of reason and autonomy as masculinist, ethnocentric, and anthropocentric (Braidotti 2016) and proposed cognitive assemblages to understand linguistic and volitional acts as emergent from nonconscious biological and algorithmic processes and environments (Hayles 2017). According to this scholarship, once we shift the primary unit of analysis from the properties of objects and boundaries of bodies to intra-acting phenomena, it becomes clear that "agency is not an attribute but the ongoing reconfigurings of the world" (Barad 2007: 141). This shift requires a reworking of causality, which has been undertaken in game studies by decentering hegemonic play practices configured around goal-based challenges and mastery (Keogh 2018), and by using speculative design to challenge assumptions about humans as separate causal agents in locative media's material entanglements with devices, interfaces, and infrastructures (Leorke and Wood 2019). This special issue continues this line of inquiry by tracing connections between intra-acting agencies at different scales throughout the assemblage of play. By curating cases that connect devices and bodies to game forms, genres, and governance across infrastructural, material, and discursive scales, this special issue aims to inflect posthuman concerns in ongoing debates about interactivity, inclusion, participation, and co-creation in games. Guided by the pragmatism of the feminist eco-humanities, this special issue will deploy theories and consider methods (Hamilton and Taylor 2017) to politicize ways of conceptualizing, designing, and organizing games for agency beyond human centrism. How can critical game scholars address and advocate for more inclusive, democratic, and sustainable forms of play, understood as performative outcomes of an array of interdependencies between humans, environments and non-human entities? As an artistic and economic expression of the mediated technicity of our current age, videogames crystalize the conundrum of individual agency that has beset our screens and bedevilled our politics. Videogames also embed critiques of this conundrum that are often ambivalent but occasionally trenchant. How can critical game scholarship on post-human agency intervene in pressing debates about persuasive technologies' manipulation of human volition and its long shadow over the mechanisms and institutions of collective decision-making that constitute democracy? Prospective authors are invited to address the questions above, or expand the line of inquiry towards new critical trajectories. Submission information: Please submit a 500 word abstract inclusive of essential bibliography, and short bio (150 word) to both aleena.chia(a)sfu.ca and p.ruffino(a)liverpool.ac.uk by Friday 9th October 2020 Notification of acceptance: end of October 2020 First draft due: February 2021 Publication: February 2022 *More detailed publication timeline to follow A selection of authors will be invited to submit a full paper. Please note that acceptance of abstract does not guarantee publication, given that all papers will be put through the journal's peer review process. For any question please contact the guest editors: Aleena Chia (Simon Fraser University) aleena.chia(a)sfu.ca Paolo Ruffino (University of Liverpool) p.ruffino(a)liverpool.ac.uk References Apperley, T. and Jayemane, D., 2012. Game studies' material turn. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 9(1), pp.5-25. Banks, J., 2013. Co-creating videogames. Bloomsbury Publishing. Braidotti, R., 2016. Posthuman critical theory. In Critical posthumanism and planetary futures (pp. 13-32). Springer, New Delhi. Brock, T., Fraser, E. 2018.Is Computer Gaming a Craft? Pre-hension, practice and puzzle-solving in gaming labour. Information, Communication and Society 21(9): 1219-1233. De Paoli, S. and Kerr, A., 2010. The assemblage of cheating: How to study cheating as imbroglio in MMORPGs. The Fibreculture Journal, 16. Gray, K.L. and Leonard, D.J. eds., 2018. Woke Gaming: Digital Challenges to Oppression and Social Injustice. University of Washington Press. Hamilton, L. and Taylor, N., 2017. Ethnography after humanism: Power, politics and method in multi-species research. Springer. Hayles, N.K., 2017. Unthought: The power of the cognitive nonconscious. University of Chicago Press. Joseph, D.J., 2018. The discourse of digital dispossession: paid modifications and community crisis on steam. Games and Culture, 13(7), pp.690-707. Keogh, B., 2018. A play of bodies: How we perceive videogames. MIT Press. Leorke, D. and Wood, C., 2019. 'Alternative Ways of Being': Reimagining Locative Media Materiality through Speculative Fiction and Design. Media Theory. Manovich, L., 1996. On totalitarian interactivity. Posting on www. rhizome. com. Retrieved May, 25, p.2008. Murray, J.H., 1997. Hamlet on the Holodeck. Simon and Schuster. Ndalianis, A., 1999. " Evil will walk once more": phantasmagoria-the stalker film as interactive movie?. New York University Press. Nieborg, D.B. and Poell, T., 2018. The platformization of cultural production: Theorizing the contingent cultural commodity. New Media & Society, 20(11), pp.4275-4292. Roelvink, G., Gibson, K. and Graham, J., 2009. A postcapitalist politics of dwelling: Ecological humanities and community economies in conversation. Ruberg, B. and Shaw, A. eds., 2017. Queer game studies. U of Minnesota Press. Stang, S., 2019. "This Action Will Have Consequences": Interactivity and Player Agency. Game Studies, 19(1). Taylor, T.L., 2009. The assemblage of play. Games and Culture, 4(4), pp.331-339. Tsing, A.L., 2015. The mushroom at the end of the world: On the possibility of life in capitalist ruins. Princeton University Press.

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PANDEMICS & ETHICS: CAN CONTACT TRACING APPLICATIONS ADDRESS BOTH EFFECTIVELY? Call for comments on ethical certification
by Ansgar Koene 22 Aug '20

22 Aug '20

Hi all, the IEEE Ethics Certification Program for Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (ECPAIS) has spent the last couple of months developing an assessment proposal for Contact Tracing apps. The draft proposal is not open for comments. Please see the message below for further details. Cheers, Ansgar Dr. Ansgar Koene Senior Research Fellow: ReEnTrust, UnBias & Horizon Policy Impact Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute University of Nottingham Working group chair for IEEE Standard on Algorithm Bias Considerations https://reentrust.org/ http://unbias.wp.horizon.ac.uk/ http://www.horizon.ac.uk/ http://sites.ieee.org/sagroups-7003/ https://sites.google.com/site/arkoene/ ________________________________ From: ictworkinggroup(a)LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG <ictworkinggroup(a)LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG> on behalf of Clara Neppel <c.neppel(a)ieee.org> Sent: 19 August 2020 10:42 AM To: ieee-eppc(a)IEEE.ORG <ieee-eppc(a)ieee.org>; ictworkinggroup(a)IEEE.ORG <ictworkinggroup(a)ieee.org>; energyworkinggroup(a)IEEE.ORG <energyworkinggroup(a)ieee.org> Subject: PANDEMICS & ETHICS: CAN CONTACT TRACING APPLICATIONS ADDRESS BOTH EFFECTIVELY? Call for comments on ethical certification Dear all, Contact Tracing Applications and Contact Tracing Technologies (CTA/CTT) continue to be cited as approaches to help manage the spread of COVID-19. At the same time, many considerations continue to be raised around ethical transparency, accountability, and privacy in relation to the CTA/CTT use and implementations, as they have the potential to transform the nature of society. The IEEE Ethics Certification Program for Autonomous and Intelligent Systems<https://standards.ieee.org/industry-connections/ecpais.html> (ECPAIS), under its purpose of developing critical certification criteria for responsible innovation and delivery of autonomous and intelligent systems, developed AI ethics-oriented certification criteria focused on transparency, accountability, and algorithmic bias. With the growing urgency and critical considerations of CTA/CTT, a use case for application of the criteria to address how we can verify greater ethical transparency, accountability, and privacy demonstrations in CTA/CTT was developed. This use case exhibits an initial set of the ECPAIS criteria applied to CTA/CTT. Realizing that the use case and, consequently the criteria by proxy, may be improved with input from a larger set of experts spanning wide and relevant domains, we are asking for your views and input. From legal, medical, ethical, technical, psychological, societal, governance, to cybersecurity – and beyond, all perspectives are welcome. Your feedback will be taken into consideration in the next update to the CTA/CTT ethical verification criteria use case. These criteria will help set the foundation for future ethics certification programs that testing agencies, implementers, and committed ecosystem stakeholders may seek to apply. Full information on how to download the doc and respond can be found here<https://engagestandards.ieee.org/ECPAIS-CTA-TAPEFR-Report.html?utm_source=E…>. Multiple volunteers from the larger IEEE Global A/IS Ethics community are involved in ECPAIS and helped create this Use Case. Now, we (all the people who helped create and support this work) would love to hear from you. Your insights, voices, and direct feedback are deeply appreciated. Thank you in advance for your response and best regards, Clara Dr Clara Neppel Senior Director European Business Operations IEEE Technology Centre GmbH Heinestrasse 38 1020 Vienna, Austria phone +43 1 213004 332 mobile +43 664 88 22 5855 email c.neppel(a)ieee.org<mailto:c.neppel@ieee.org> www.ieee.org<http://www.ieee.org/> ________________________________ To unsubscribe from the ICTWORKINGGROUP list, click the following link: https://listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=ICTWORKINGGROUP&A=1 This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored where permitted by law.

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New Facebook Research Position Available in Responsible Innovation
by Alex Leavitt 21 Aug '20

21 Aug '20

Important research position now open at Facebook at the intersection of social media, ethics, and responsible design. We are looking for strong, mixed-methods social scientists. Ping me if you want to apply! https://www.facebook.com/careers/jobs/601636160535073/ --- Sent from phone. Alex Leavitt Facebook Research

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ACM IUI 2021: Call for workshop proposals
by Axel Soto 21 Aug '20

21 Aug '20

ACM IUI 2021 2nd CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS In conjunction with the 26th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2021) College Station, TX, USA April 13 - 17, 2021 http://iui.acm.org/ IUI 2021 is pleased to invite proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the conference. The goal of the workshops is to provide a venue for presenting research on focused topics of interest and an informal forum to discuss research questions and challenges. Workshops will be held on the first day of the conference. We invite submissions of full-day (6 hours) and half-day (3 hours) workshop proposals on any of the conference topics (or related). This year we are particularly interested in workshops that have an interactive aspect. Preference will be given to workshops with interactive and hands-on sessions where participants can team up or work together towards the common goal of the workshop. We encourage proposals for a wide range of workshops, including but not limited to: - "Mini-conferences" on specialized topics; such workshops may have their own paper submission and review processes. - "Late breaking work" meetings; such workshops usually have a lighter review process (e.g. based on abstracts only). - "Hands-on" workshops around a specific problem or topic that may wish to ask participants to submit a position statement. - "Mini-competitions", challenges, or hackathons around selected topics with individual or team participation. == PROPOSAL FORMAT == Note: One of the keys to a successful workshop submission is to CONTACT THE CHAIRS WITH YOUR IDEAS (workshops2021(a)iui.acm.org) and work together to prepare an exciting proposal! Workshop proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the standard sigconf format, using one of the Interim ACM templates available at http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html Please submit your proposal via the PCS 2.0 submission system (https://new.precisionconference.com) The proposals should be organized as follows: - Name and title: A one-word workshop acronym and a full title. - Description of workshop topic and goal: This description should discuss the relevance of the suggested topic to the IUI audience. Include a brief discussion of why and for which audience the workshop is of particular interest. - Organizers: Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the workshop organizers. This can be a single person or a group of people. Strong proposals normally include organizers who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. Please indicate the primary contact person and the organizers who plan to attend the workshop. - Previous history: List of previous workshops that were held on the topic including the conferences that hosted past workshops and the number of participants. Also please provide the list of other workshops organized by workshop organizers in the past. - Workshop program committee: Names and affiliation of the members of the (tentative) workshop program committee that will evaluate the workshop submissions. - Participants: A statement saying how many participants you expect and how you plan to invite participants for the workshop. We recommend the proposal to include the names of at least 10 people who have expressed interest to participate in, or contribute a paper to, the workshop. - Workshop format: A brief description of the workshop format regarding the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, and general discussion. - Length: Full-day or half-day. - Proposal format: Workshop proposals should be maximum 2 pages long and follow the formatting instructions from (sigconf): http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html Additional guidelines: ---------------------- - Workshop proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the workshop chairs. - Organizers: We strongly encourage all of the workshop organizers to attend IUI and take part in their workshop. This can make the workshops more appealing for the participants and strengthen the discussion part. - Workshop summary: An extended abstract with a summary of the workshop goals and an overview of the workshop topics will be included in the ACM Digital Library for IUI 2021. - Workshop proceedings: At the convenience of the workshop organizers, we will arrange a joint volume of online proceedings for the workshop papers. Workshops should request the authors to submit papers in the ACM SIGCHI Paper Format. - Cancellation: Workshops with few submissions by January 3 2021 may be cancelled, shortened, merged with other workshops, or otherwise restructured. This will be done in consultation between the IUI 2021 workshop chairs and the workshop organizers. Additionally, we strongly encourage to have workshop organizers from different institutions and research communities, bringing different perspectives to the workshop topic. We welcome workshops with a creative structure that attracts various types of contributions and ensures rich interactions. The organizers of accepted workshops are responsible for producing a call for participation and publicizing it, such as distributing the call to relevant newsgroups and electronic mailing lists, and especially to potential audiences from outside the IUI conference community. Workshop organizers will maintain their own website with updated information about the workshops and the IUI 2021 web site will refer to the workshop site. The workshop organizers will coordinate the paper solicitation, collection, and review process, and coordinate the production of the joint online proceedings with IUI 2021 workshop chairs. == IMPORTANT DATES == Discuss your topic with the workshop chairs: ASAP Workshop date: Proposals Due: September 15, 2020 Decisions sent: October 07, 2020 Submissions due: December 23, 2020 Reporting of status: January 03, 2021 Final go/no-go decisions: January 05, 2021 Notification to authors: January 31, 2021 Camera-ready for workshop summary [ACM Companion] February 10, 2021 Camera-ready for accepted papers February 28, 2021

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JoCTEC Book Review Requests
by Plothe, Theo 20 Aug '20

20 Aug '20

Colleagues, In preparation for forthcoming issues of JoCTEC, we are soliciting book reviews from scholars like yourself. We have a number of titles for your consideration. Anne H. Stevens, Molly C. O’Donnell, eds. The Microgenre: A Quick Look at Small Culture https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-microgenre-9781501345807/ Elinor Carmi. Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise, and Other Deviant Media (2020) https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/70160 Brady Robards & Siân Lincoln. Growing Up on Facebook (2020) https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/64408 Jiwoo Park & Dafna Lemish. KakaoTalk and Facebook: Korean American Youth Creating Hybrid Identities (2019) https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/68515 Edward Downs, ed. The Dark Side of Media and Technology: A 21st Century Guide to Media and Technological Literacy(2019) https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/65416 Jeremy Hunsinger & Andrew Schrock, eds. Making Our World: The Hacker and Maker Movements in Context (2019) https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/69394 Andrea Guzman, ed. Human-Machine Communication (2018) https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/64309 Bastiaan Vanacker & Don Heider, eds. Ethics for a Digital Age, Vol. 2 (2018) https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/67397 D. Travers Scott, Pathology and Technology: Killer Apps and Sick Users (2018) https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/65721 Theo Plothe & Amber Buck. Netflix at the Nexus (2019) https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/69620?format=HC Anne Stevens & Molly O’Donnell. The Microgenre: A Quick Look at Small Culture https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-microgenre-9781501345807/ Reviews should be around 2000 words in length and should be submitted within three months of receipt of the book. If you are interested in reviewing any of these titles, please email me at plothet(a)savannahstate.edu<mailto:plothet@savannahstate.edu>. Please include your mailing address so I can arrange to have a copy of the book sent to you. Best, Dr. Plothe -- Theo Plothe, PhD Editor, Journal of Communication Technology Division of Communication Technology, AEJMC

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Aspen Tech Policy Hub Launches Projects on Disaster Technology
by Betsy Cooper 19 Aug '20

19 Aug '20

Dear AoIR Listserv, It is my pleasure to introduce the fifth set of projects from our 2020 Fellowship class. The projects, focused on [1]Disaster Technology: Preparing for Unprecedented Crisis, provide exciting innovations in disaster response communications and solutions for reducing software's carbon footprint. We released the projects at our webinar today; you can watch a video of the event [2]here. I invite you to read more about the projects below, and to check them out on our website: [3]Aspen Tech Policy Hub Projects. Please stay tuned for our announcement next week about webinars to release the results of our COVID-19 Challenge Grants. Warm Regards, Betsy Cooper Director, Aspen Tech Policy Hub Projects on Disaster Technology: Preparing for Unprecedented Crisis [4]Helpful Alternative Link Protocol When disaster strikes, reliable and easy-to-use communications become absolutely critical. Dependable communications are needed to pair those in distress with those able to provide assistance. However, recent fires, earthquakes and hurricanes have shown us that sometimes the cell networks that our society has come to rely on fail in disasters. Having both resilient cell networks and a backup option if cell carrier networks fail is critical to the safety and security of the United States. The Helpful Alternative Link Protocol (HALP) aims to improve the networks we currently have, and provides a fallback network if primary carriers fail. HALP uses LTE cellular bands for citizen-powered last mile mesh communications, so that citizens can communicate with those around them if existing cell services fail. [5]Tech Companies Combating Climate Change To avoid the worst effects of climate change, scientific consensus states that CO₂ emissions must decline 40 to 60 percent by 2030 to keep our planet from warming more than 1.5°C. To achieve these goals, the software industry, whose climate impact from cloud computing is often underestimated, must significantly change. Large companies like Google and Microsoft are taking action to reduce their carbon footprint. Yet most startups lack the resources to understand and factor climate impact into business decisions. This project recommends that investors engage with portfolio companies to help them understand their climate impact and make changes. It supplies startups with tools to understand the impact of cloud providers, measure their carbon footprint, and take action to clean up their software supply chains. [6]Learn More CONTACT US [7]Twitter [8]Website [9]Email Address References 1. https://www.aspeninstitute.org/events/aspen-tech-policy-hub-demo-day-disast… 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb23wB-sygs&feature=youtu.be 3. https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/projects/ 4. https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/project/helpful-alternative-link-protoco… 5. https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/project/climate-change/ 6. https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/projects 7. https://www.twitter.com/AspenPolicyHub 8. https://www.aspentechpolicyhub.org/#/ 9. mailto:aspentechpolicyhub@aspeninstitute.org Unsubscribe: https://app.icontact.com/icp/mmail-mprofile.php?r=71217812&l=113004&s=0KZB&… This message was sent to air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org from betsy.cooper(a)aspeninstitute.org Betsy Cooper The Aspen Institute 2300 N Street, NW Suite 700 Washington, DC 20037

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Borders, bordering and sovereignty in digital space // Online symposium // September 2nd and 3rd
by Morris,CJ (pgr) 19 Aug '20

19 Aug '20

Dear list members, I’m here to extend an invite to the online symposium Dr Chenchen Zhang and I have organized, Borders, bordering and sovereignty in digital space. The conference is taking place on the 2nd and 3rd of September, between 09:00 to 18:30 GMT+1. Please find the program attached here<https://twitter.com/carwyn/status/1296182771413639169> (sorry, I don’t have a website for hosting!). We have the following panels: * Digital activism and alternative imaginaries * Making digital sovereignty I – The European Union * Making digital sovereignty II – China and Russia * Cybersecurity, cyberwarfare, and techno-nationalism * Mobility, border politics, and humanitarian governance * Law, jurisdiction, cyber offences * Dataveillance and data governance * Technology, infrastructure, urban geography Our roundtables (which may be streamed) are: * Data sovereignty and data colonialism, with Nick Couldry, Payal Arora, Ralph Litzinger and Amir Anwar * COVID-19, technology, borders, with Mimi Sheller, Ayona Datta, Florian Schneider and Chenchen Zhang While the symposium is not ‘public’, we have some room for those whose research interests align with the themes of the symposium. If you’re interested in attending, please send an email to me on this email address c.j.morris(a)lse.ac.uk<mailto:c.j.morris@lse.ac.uk> and we'll look to fit as many people in as we can. Best, Carwyn Morris Doctor of Human Geography and Urban Studies Department of Geography and Environment London School of Economics Tweeting @carwyn<https://twitter.com/carwyn> <https://twitter.com/carwyn>

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Invitation to CSCW workshop on participatory design & data feminism
by Erhardt Graeff 19 Aug '20

19 Aug '20

Catherine D'Ignazio, Christina Harrington, Daniela Rosner, and I are organizing a one-day workshop at the CSCW conference <https://cscw.acm.org/2020/> to be scheduled for October 17 or 18. The workshop will be completely virtual. *Toward Equitable Participatory Design: Data Feminism for CSCW amidst Multiple Pandemics* https://cscw2020datafeminism.wordpress.com/ The workshop is intended for community organizers, designers, and academics who work on and think about design and data projects in communities and want to explore and discuss critical approaches in the context of 2020's multiple pandemics of COVID-19, anti-Black racism, and a global economic crisis. Applications to join us (short personal statements) are due September 14, 2020. More information and submission links are on the workshop website. <https://cscw2020datafeminism.wordpress.com/> We hope some of you can join us! Erhardt -- Erhardt Graeff https://erhardtgraeff.com pronouns: he, him, his

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Job: Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream - Business Technology Management, ICCIT University of Toronto Mississauga
by Tero Karppi 19 Aug '20

19 Aug '20

Title: Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream - Business Technology Management Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga Department: Institute of Communication, Culture Information & Technology Closing Date: October 13, 2020, 11:59 pm Candidates must have a PhD in Information Technology, Information Systems, Computational Social Sciences, or a related field by the appointment start date, or shortly thereafter. Candidates must have a demonstrated record of excellence in teaching and pedagogical inquiry, and have teaching experience in a degree granting program at both the undergraduate and graduate program levels that includes lecture preparation and delivery, development of online material/lectures, instructing students in hands-on development of technical skills, pedagogical research and publishing lab preparation and delivery, innovative assessment methods, and broader curriculum development. Candidates must also demonstrate a commitment to improving their pedagogical practices, and an interest in teaching-related scholarly activities. Evidence of excellence in teaching and pedagogical inquiry can be demonstrated through teaching accomplishments, awards and accolades, presentations at significant conferences, the teaching dossier submitted as part of the application including a strong teaching statement, sample syllabi, course materials, and teaching evaluations, as well as strong letters of reference. We are looking for candidates whose academic work focuses on the impacts of recent innovations in information and communications technologies on businesses and society. We are seeking candidates with both well-developed technical skill-sets and research and teaching interests that will complement our existing strengths. The successful candidate should have a record of teaching and research emphasizing the connections between information technology, business practice, and organizational forms. Areas of emphasis include management information systems, software development, web development, business analytics, design thinking, cybersecurity, UI design, virtualization, cloud computing, networking, and computer & information sciences. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. ICCIT focuses on teaching and research excellence in its three undergraduate programs: Communication, Culture, Information and Technology, Digital Enterprise Management and Professional Writing and Communication. The successful applicant will join a vibrant intellectual community of world-class scholars at Canada’s leading university. For information, please visit www.utm.utoronto.ca/iccit. To be considered for this position, all application materials must be submitted online by October 13, 2020. Applications must include the documents listed below, formatted as 4 attachments with naming convention LastnameFirstname_CV.pdf, LastnameFirstname_Writing.pdf, etc.: Attachment 1: Cover Letter, CV Attachment 2: Statement of Pedagogy and statement of contributions to equity and diversity (see details below) Attachment 3: Writing Sample demonstrating experience with business technology management Attachment 4: Teaching Dossier (Max. 20 pages, to include a teaching statement, list of courses taught, sample syllabi, course evaluation data summary) Equity and diversity are among UTM’s core values and are essential to academic excellence. We seek candidates who value diversity and whose research, teaching and service bear out our commitment to equity. Candidates are therefore also asked to submit a 1-2 page statement of contributions to equity and diversity, which might cover topics such as (but not limited to): research or teaching that incorporates a focus on underrepresented communities, the development of inclusive pedagogies, or the mentoring of students from underrepresented groups. Applicants must also provide the name and contact information of three references. At least one referee must primarily address the candidate’s teaching. The University of Toronto’s recruiting tool will automatically solicit and collect letters of reference from each once an application is submitted. Applicants, however, remain responsible for ensuring that references submit letters by the closing date, October 13, 2020. Letters of recommendation (on letterhead, signed, dated and scanned) should be addressed to Professor Rhonda McEwen, ICCIT Director. Submission guidelines can be found at http://uoft.me/how-to-apply. If you have any questions about this position, please contact iccit.utm(a)utoronto.ca. All application materials, including reference letters, must be received by October 13, 2020. Please apply on the University of Toronto website: https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Mississauga-Assistant-Professor%2C-Teaching-St…

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WEBCAST TODAY – Providing Remote Services for The Disability Community During The Pandemic
by Joly MacFie 18 Aug '20

18 Aug '20

This is just about to start. As well as the organizations listed below, Jonathon is on the NYC Museum, Arts and Culture Access Consortium Steering Committee. ISOC Live posted: "On Tuesday August 18 2020 at 7pm EDT (23:00 UTC) the Accessibility NYC Meetup (A11yNYC) hosts an online meetup ‘Providing Remote Services for The Disability Community During The Pandemic‘. Presenter Jonathon Epstein of AHRC NYC and InTandem will discuss t" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/allynyc0820>On *Tuesday August 18 2020* at *7pm EDT* (23:00 UTC) the *Accessibility NYC Meetup <https://www.meetup.com/A11yNYC/>* (A11yNYC) hosts an online meetup ‘*Providing Remote Services for The Disability Community During The Pandemic <https://www.meetup.com/A11yNYC/events/271970821/>*‘. Presenter *Jonathon Epstein* of *AHRC NYC <https://www.ahrcnyc.org/>* and *InTandem <https://www.intandem.org/>* will discuss the ways in which, in the age of COVID-19, government agencies, non-profits and cultural institutions are working together to support their constituents in ways that are as accessible and intersectional as possible. The meetup will be webcast live via a partnership with the *Internet Society Accessibility SIG <https://a11ysig.org>*. *LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/allynyc0820 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety2/allynyc0820> (Open Captions)* *PARTICiPATE: https://www.meetup.com/A11yNYC/events/271970821 <https://www.meetup.com/A11yNYC/events/271970821>/* *REAL TIME TEXT: http://streamtext.net/player?event=a11ynyc <http://streamtext.net/player?event=a11ynyc>* *TWITTER: @a11ynyc Jonathon Epstein <https://bit.ly/3apRRyw> @AHRCNYC #INthistogether* *SIMULCASTS* *https://youtu.be/OPFoJ1T24fA <https://youtu.be/OPFoJ1T24fA> (comment here)* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *ARCHIVE* *https://archive.org/details/allynyc0820 <https://archive.org/details/allynyc0820>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/12586/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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