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WEBCAST TODAY: Designing a participatory design workshop w/ Indira Knight @A11yVR @AllySIG #gameChangeVR @HHCDesign @RCA
by Joly MacFie 04 Jun '20

04 Jun '20

You may have heard the phrase "nothing about us, without us". Today's presenter walks the talk. ISOC Live posted: "On Thursday June 4 2020 at 8pm JST (11:00 UTC) the Accessibility VR Meetup hosts 'Designing a participatory design workshop' on Mozilla Hubs. When working on the design of gameChange, a VR program to help people with psychosis presenter Indira Knight, a h" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr3>On *Thursday June 4 2020* at *8pm JST* (11:00 UTC) the *Accessibility VR Meetup <https://www.meetup.com/a11yvr/>* hosts '*Designing a participatory design workshop <https://www.meetup.com/a11yvr/events/270720060/>*' on Mozilla Hubs. When working on the design of gameChange <https://gamechangevr.com/>, a VR program to help people with psychosis presenter *Indira Knight*, a healthcare researcher at the *Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design <https://www.rca.ac.uk/research-innovation/research-centres/helen-hamlyn-cen…>* at the Royal College of Art, developed a series of participatory design workshops to include people with lived experience of psychosis in the design process. In this workshop she will talk about some of the decisions that were made when designing the workshops, the development of the workshop materials and how they were run. The session will be webcast live via a partnership with the *Internet Society Accessibility SIG <https://a11ysig.org>* (A11ySIG). *LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr3 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/a11yvr3>* *YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/IYL_cK19ad8 <https://youtu.be/IYL_cK19ad8>* *PARTICIPATE: https://hubs.mozilla.com/G6edX79/a11yvr-project/ <https://hubs.mozilla.com/G6edX79/a11yvr-project/>* *REAL TIME TEXT: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr <https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=a11yvr>* *TWITTER: @a11yvr <http://bit.ly/A11yVR> #gameChangeVR* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/12158/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Journal of Peer Production #14 'Infrastructuring the Commons Today, when STS meet ICT'
by Mathieu.O'Neil 03 Jun '20

03 Jun '20

<final apology for multiple posts!> The Journal of Peer Production would like to announce the publication of Special Issue #14 'Infrastructuring the Commons Today, when STS meet ICT' Guest editors: Mariacristina Sciannamblo (Sapienza University of Rome), Maurizio Teli (Aalborg University), Peter Lyle (Aarhus University) & Christopher Csíkszentmihályi (Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute) Peer production and collaborative forms of technological design – such as those based on commons-oriented approaches – have at their core a critical stance towards the technoscientific landscape, an approach shared with Science and Technology Studies (STS) as a theoretical archipelago that has produced a significant wealth of knowledge that points out the social constructive and performative character of technoscience. In recent time, the increasing prominence of critical approaches - e.g. feminist and postcolonial STS - and the intersections with surrounding fields - e.g. participatory design, information science, and critical technical practice - have stressed the politically engaged character of STS, emphasizing its "activist interest" (Sismondo, 2008). Such growing interest in collaborative modes of practicing STS has suggested the emergence of a "collaborative turn" in STS (Farías, 2017). Such novel approaches allow researchers and practitioners to understand and experience STS as a “practice” as well as a theoretical perspective, an approach that can be fruitful and inspiring also to investigate, design, and advocate for commons-based and oriented forms of production and experiences. This special issue focuses on such collaborative orientation of STS by exploring its interplay with the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) when focusing on the commons and peer production. With the question of infrastructuring the commons as a background, the issue evokes the disciplinary intersection of STS with design studies and information science; the epistemological meeting between STS and critical perspectives; the making of new alliances between researchers, activists and local populations; the convergence of institutional interests and research practices to promote alternative sociotechnical infrastructures. The issue is open access and available at this link: http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-14-infrastructuring-the-commons-toda… ================================================

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CfP special issue 'Algorithmic Governance in Context' (New Media & Society)
by Mariëlle W. 03 Jun '20

03 Jun '20

*CfP: ‘Algorithmic Governance in Context’* Special issue of *New Media & Society* Special issue editors: Daria Gritsenko (University of Helsinki), Annette Markham (RMIT), Holger Pötzsch (UiT – The Arctic University of Norway) and Mariëlle Wijermars (Maastricht University) We invite paper proposals for a special issue in the journal *New Media & Society* that will interrogate the functions and effects of algorithms in contemporary governance. Contributing to the current academic debate, the special issue seeks to conceptualize the notion of context in algorithmic governance by, first, perceiving of algorithmic governance as an activity taking place in a variety of contexts and aiming at investigating these contexts in a systematic manner. Second, by focusing not only on how algorithms are used as tools for governance, but also on how such tools can be governed – controlled and held to account – and what challenges such forms of governance imply. The use of algorithms in society can imply a moving of contestable issues from negotiable to non-negotiable spaces, thereby reducing agency and influence of human actors. Active recontextualizations can become an important tool to problematize such and other consequences of algorithmic governance and reveal possible unintended implications and effects. The special issue builds upon a series of workshops (2019-2020) facilitated by a networking grant from *The Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences* (NOS-HS) coordinated at the University of Helsinki, that focused on the multiplicity of contexts in which algorithmic systems operate. Drawing upon the conceptual work conducted during the workshops, the special issue focuses on two key themes: multiplying the contexts of algorithmic governance and governing algorithms in context. *Multiplying the contexts of algorithmic governance* Articles are invited that explore how specific conditions impact upon the efficacy and perceived legitimacy of algorithms as tools for governance. In particular, contributions may direct attention to the manifold everyday practices through which algorithmic governance is effectuated and investigate the legal, political, cultural, economic, and technological frames that predispose and tacitly guide these. Through this focus, it becomes clear that algorithmic governance is not only a deeply contextual activity, but also an activity carried out within the frames of a multiplicity of different and often competing context*s*. Identifying exactly which contexts matter when, in which ways, and to whom becomes an important task for the planning of algorithmic forms of governance in and through autonomous machine learning systems. At the same time, active recontextualization enables problematizing and resisting algorithmic governance in cases where it is perceived as illegitimate or biased. *Governing algorithms in context* Articles are invited that focus on the fact that algorithms at once govern, and are themselves governed by, either human or non-human agents. The increased use of algorithms in all areas of life makes the question of how to understand and sufficiently control such governing algorithms a timely and salient area of critical inquiry. Issues such as the complexity and opacity of algorithmic assessment and feedback systems as well as their growing autonomy and pervasiveness are important areas of research dedicated to improving the governance of algorithms. Articles could, for example, aim at facilitating new technical solutions, at raising public awareness, at informing practices of decision-makers and funding bodies, as well as at critically assessing cultural and other responses to the governance of algorithms. We welcome both disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives and studies employing various social scientific methods, including comparative case-studies, ethnography, socio-legal studies, design studies, and historical inquiry. We particularly encourage studies that challenge the status quo, either through innovative (mixed method) methodologies or critical reflections on the state of the art. Papers could address, but are not limited to, the following questions: · What are the different ‘realities’ constructed by the use of algorithms in governance? How do they play out across time and space? · How do individuals – in private or organisational contexts – make sense of and respond to algorithmic governance? · What are the similarities and differences in the deployment of algorithmic governance within public and private sectors? · What are the challenges of developing effective strategies for governing algorithms at the intersection of law and technology? · How can different publics be made aware of ‘algorithmic bads’, while still benefiting from ‘algorithmic goods’? In sum, papers can either systematically tackle the contexts of algorithmic governance or investigate the governance of algorithms, identifying challenges that emerge in different governance contexts. *Guest editors:* Daria Gritsenko, Assistant Professor in Russian Big Data Methodology, University of Helsinki. daria.gritsenko(a)helsinki.fi Annette Markham, Professor of Media & Communication, Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT, Melbourne. amarkham(a)gmail.com Holger Pötzsch, Professor of Media- and Documentation Studies, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway. holger.potzsch(a)uit.no Mariëlle Wijermars, Assistant Professor in Cyber-Security and Politics, Maastricht University. m.wijermars(a)maastrichtuniversity.nl *Timeline:* · Extended abstract submission deadline: 30 June. Please submit here: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/105716/lomake.html · Invitation to submit full draft: 15 July · Deadline for full papers: 31 October *Submission guidelines:* Proposals of 750-1000 words should comprise an abstract and a short description explaining how the proposed paper relates to the special issue theme. Please submit your proposal through the submission form no later than June 30, 2020. Invited paper submissions will be due 31 October 2020 and will undergo peer review following the usual procedures of *New Media & Society*. Approximately 10-12 papers will be sent out for full review. Therefore, the invitation to submit a full article does not guarantee acceptance into the special issue. The special issue is scheduled for publication in early 2022, with online first publication expected from mid-2021 onwards. *D**r **Mariëlle** Wijermars* *Assistant Professor in Cyber-Security and Politics Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS) *m.wijermars(a)maastrichtuniversity.nl <m.wijermars(a)maastrichtuniversity.nl%20> www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/p70066306 <http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/> Visiting address: Grote Gracht 86, Maastricht, room 2.002 P.O. Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands Recent publications: Gritsenko, D., M. Wijermars and M. Kopotev (Eds). In press. *The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies*. Palgrave Macmillan. Wijermars, M., and K. Lehtisaari (Eds). 2020. *Freedom of Expression in Russia’s New Mediasphere.* Routledge.

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Seminar Tomorrow on Media Policy in a Time of Crisis
by Eleanor Marchant 02 Jun '20

02 Jun '20

Here at the Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy at Oxford we'll be hosting the wonderful Victor Pickard tomorrow to talk about the very relevant subject of Media Policy in a Time of Crisis. 16:30 British Summer Time, Wednesday June 3, 2020 Abstract: News media industries—particularly newspapers—are facing an existential threat. Dramatic shifts in digital economics, especially the collapse of commercial journalism’s advertising revenue, have devastated local journalism in recent years. The pandemic has accelerated this structural crisis and democratic societies across the globe are scrambling to save journalism before it is too late. My talk will draw from my recent book Democracy without Journalism? to discuss potential policy interventions to not only salvage–but also reinvent–our news media system. Ultimately this crisis is an opportunity to reimagine what journalism could and should be. Follow this link for more information about the talk, the seminar series as a whole, and details about how to join the live discussion: https://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk/global-media-policy-seminar-series-victor-pic…<https://socleg.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=871c2ede03be24ba1090db0e2…> Take care everyone! Eleanor ELEANOR R MARCHANT PHD ConflictNET<https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-and-subject-groups/politics-and-practice-…> Postdoctoral Fellow Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy Centre for Socio-Legal Studies University of Oxford Tw: @ermarchant<https://twitter.com/ermarchant> | www.eleanormarchant.me<http://www.eleanormarchant.me>

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COVID-19 seminar #7: "Seeing Indigenous Land Struggles in COVID-19, " Dr Will Smith, Dr Noah Theriault, Dr June Rubis
by Thao Phan 01 Jun '20

01 Jun '20

*COVID-19 seminar #7: Dr Will Smith, Dr Noah Theriault, Dr June Rubis* https://smiththeriaultrubis-seminar.eventbrite.com.au <https://smiththeriaultrubis-seminar.eventbrite.com.au> Please join us for the FINAL seminar in the COVID-19 seminar series, co-hosted by the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship & Globalisation <https://www.deakin.edu.au/adi> (ADI) and the Science and Society Network <https://scienceandsocietynetwork.deakin.edu.au/> (SSN). *Title:*Seeing Indigenous Land Struggles in COVID-19 *Abstract:*Popular and academic commentary on the multispecies assemblage of COVID-19 has focused extensively on its nebulous animal origins. Bats, civets, snakes, pangolins, and birds have all found themselves implicated as possible hosts for the novel virus. A multispecies exploration of COVID-19 appropriately highlights the profitable and violent commodity chains that connect mass consumption of wild animals to global ‘biodiversity hotspots.’ Yet, perversely, this move has also worked to erase reference to the peoples who actually coexist with these lifeforms. In this talk, we examine what is rendered invisible when ‘exotic’ animal origins are fetishized. Throughout Southeast Asia, the ancestral territories of indigenous peoples are the ultimate source of wildlife destined for consumption throughout the region. Drawing on examples from the Philippines and Malaysia, we explore how indigenous struggles for land and livelihood are central, not marginal, to understanding the emergence of a zoonotic pathogen like SARS-CoV-2. *About the speakers:* Will Smith is an Associate Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University. He is an anthropologist and human geographer whose research critically explores environmental governance, indigenous livelihoods and climate change in the Philippines. He is the author of Mountains of Blame: Climate and Culpability in the Philippine Uplands (University of Washington Press, 2020). Noah Theriault, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Carnegie Mellon University, studies how global-scale forces shape the lives of rural and urban communities in the Philippines, with particular attention to the everyday practices through which those forces are enacted, contested, and potentially transformed. This includes a long-term study of indigeneity and biodiversity conservation in Palawan and more recently a political ecology of infrastructure in Manila. As a former conservation biologist, June Rubis, Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Sydney, has about twelve years experience with wildlife conservation fieldwork in both Indonesian and Malaysian Borneo. She also has work experience on Indigenous land rights issues, working alongside with local activists in Malaysian Borneo (Sarawak and Sabah), on campaigns to resist mega-dam development in Borneo. She also studies decolonial Indigenous approaches to biodiversity conservation in Sarawak. Much of her approach to her work follows along the teachings of her late Bidayuh father. She holds both an MSc in Environmental Change and Management and a DPhil (PhD) in Geography & Environment, from the University of Oxford. *Watch the seminar:* Seminar will be available to stream on YouTube live. Access using the live link: <https://youtu.be/eJsN8Ym85y4>https://youtu.be/AD29NDsvwkc Date/time: Tuesday 9th June, 10am - 11:30am (Australian Eastern Standard Time, GMT+10) Q&A with the speaker to follow. To send questions/participate in the chat, you'll need to sign-in using a YouTube account <https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-comment-on-youtube?r=AU&IR=T>. If you have any questions, please send to ssn-info(a)deakin.edu.au The talk will also be recorded and available on the SSN Youtube Channel <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVYFQV_UFX9CLreqpNzanVA>. Did you miss our last seminar? Watch it here! <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtH1AbnJ7AFApbhh29fL5kqjNFdD_0eID>

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senior and postdoc fellowships in global internet governance
by Jan Aart Scholte 01 Jun '20

01 Jun '20

Call for Research Fellowship Applications 2021/2022 (Global Internet Governance) Postdoctoral and Senior Researchers The Käte Hamburger Kolleg/Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21) invites applications for Research Fellowships with duration of 12 months starting between February and September 2021. Proposals are especially welcome regarding: (1) critique, justification and legitimacy in global cooperation; and (2) global cooperation and competing conceptions of world order. The fully funded fellowships are available to both senior and postdoctoral researchers across the humanities and social sciences. Prioritized global policy fields include climate, Internet, migration, peacebuilding. Deadline for applications is 1st June 2020. We are aware that this call comes at a time of high uncertainty around COVID-19. We are monitoring closely the evolving situation and hope that circumstances will allow the advertised fellowships to start as planned from February 2021 onwards. We therefore urge you to apply if you are interested but still uncertain about the practicability of the fellowship! The KHK/GCR21 The Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen is one of ten Käte Hamburger Kollegs sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Established in 2012, the Centre is an interdisciplinary and international learning community that seeks to enhance understanding of the possibilities and limits of global cooperation and to explore new options for global public policy. The working language at the Centre is English. In its second funding period (2018-2023), the Centre’s research and fellowships are organized around four broad themes: pathways and mechanisms of global cooperation; global cooperation and polycentric governance; critique, justification and legitimacy in global cooperation; and global cooperation and competing conceptions of world order. Empirical research on these themes focuses especially on the governance of climate change, the internet, migration, and peacebuilding. The Centre will issue thematic calls for application on an annual basis. Fellowships 2021-2022 For next year we invite fellowship applications from across the humanities and social sciences (including also psychology, law and economics) in relation to the second two main themes, as detailed below. We particularly encourage female researchers and scholars from the Global South to apply. Applications from scholars at risk are welcome. Benefits to Fellows * An intellectually stimulating and vibrant interdisciplinary learning community * Excellent infrastructure with fully equipped offices, library facilities, and administrative support (also with finding accommodation) * Funds to organize workshops (subject to approval, with preference especially to workshops that emerge from an interdisciplinary exchange with other researchers at the Centre) * Either a monthly stipend commensurate with experience or financing of a teaching replacement at the home institution Expectations from Fellows * A completed PhD * Personal research and publication in the Centre’s thematic areas * A contribution to the Centre’s own publications * Regular active participation in seminars and other Centre events * Collaboration with other fellows in interdisciplinary exchange * Work in residence at the Centre in Duisburg, Germany Themes 2021-2022 The Centre’s work in the period of 2021-2022 will focus on the themes ‘Critique, Justification and Legitimacy in Global Cooperation’ and ‘Global Cooperation and Competing Conceptions of World Order’, as described further below. We especially invite fellowship applications that address these themes. In addition, preference will be given to applications with an empirical focus on the governance of climate change, the internet, migration, and peacebuilding. How to Apply Applications (in English only) should include: * cover letter * concise research proposal (3-5 pages) * CV * list of publications * text of one relevant publication Please submit applications at http://www.gcr21.org/en/fellows/how-to-become-a-fellow/fellowships/. Deadline for receipt of applications is 1st June 2020. Please indicate in the cover letter your preferred start and end date of the fellowship. If you have any questions, please contact Matthias Schuler at <schuler(a)gcr21.uni-due.de>. Critique, Justification and Legitimacy in Global Cooperation Legitimacy – and its contestation – is a vital question for global cooperation. Legitimacy refers to the belief and perception that a governing force has rightful authority and exercises it appropriately. Legitimacy can be both normative (i.e. determined by moral judgement) and sociological (i.e. observed in political behaviour). Scholarship from various disciplines has usually examined legitimacy in relation to the state, but more recent scholarship understands legitimacy as a fragile, politicized, and contested phenomenon that involves a wider range of political forces, including multilateral institutions, private global governance, and transnational social movements. This processual notion of legitimacy – the interplay between critique and justification – leads to many conceptual, theoretical, and methodological challenges. It implies considering politicization processes and power relations across scales (at local, national and transnational levels), a broad spectrum of political actors in their complex relationships, and new forms of resistance against formal authorities (e.g. by whistleblowers, young climate activists, right-wing networks). Sites of resistance include – but are not limited to – civil society associations, social movements, and everyday practices of ordinary citizens. De-legitimation can come from ‘left-wing’ and ‘right-wing’ angles, from communitarians as well as cosmopolitans. If legitimacy is also created by civil society actors, new protest movements, and ‘ordinary citizens’, research questions emerge on how to conceptualize and study contested ‘legitimation work’ (Raymond Geuss) around multiple sites of global cooperation. We welcome projects that help us gain a better understanding of global cooperation and ‘politics of (de)legitimation’. Proposals are welcomed across a range of issue-areas, especially – though not limited to – climate change, Internet, migration, and peacebuilding. Questions for this research stream may include, though are not limited to:  Who are the protagonists who cooperate in legitimation and de-legitimation (or resistance) struggles (e.g. civil society organizations, social movements, indigenous groups)? How and why do these struggles emerge and develop? How does the global rise of populism play into such practices of cooperation?  What forms of trans-scalar cooperation can we distinguish in politics of (de-)legitimation (e.g. shared textual and visual narratives, performances, academic schools of thought)? For example, do young climate activists cooperate differently than right-wing networks?  How can we best study new protagonists and complex new forms of resistance against formal authorities, for instance as exercised/practiced by whistleblowers, feminist activists, artists, sportspeople and critical comedians?  How do certain concerns gain legitimacy as a “global” problem in need of “cooperation” (e.g. peace, climate change)? Global Cooperation and Competing Conceptions of World Order The broad question concerning competing conceptions of world order is a very traditional issue of global politics, which has operated on the basis of both systemic assumptions and more actor-focused concepts. Yet, under current polycentric conditions, these issues have taken many different forms and can be studied from a variety of perspectives, particularly with regard to their impact on global cooperation. Research projects in this stream are invited to explore the commonalities and differences between various conceptions of world order, as well as relationships between them in practices of global cooperation and non-cooperation. We welcome projects that help us to gain a better understanding of how different and often contested conceptions of world order shape, change or obstruct global cooperation. This includes abstract considerations about epistemological and anthropological foundations of world-order conceptions, as well as a focus on material conditions and repercussions. Also welcome are proposals that deepen understanding of populism and anti-global protest, the fight for global equality or the self-legitimation of organizations. Themes we are particularly interested in for the coming fellowship period include: How can we understand geopolitics (i.e. the strategic struggle for spheres of influence), beyond its form as classic theme of international politics? Can it result in new constellations of global cooperation? Or will we see a return of interstate conflict that seemed to have become obsolete? We invite research on perceptions, narratives and discourses to explore grand geopolitical/economic schemes in their conception in different regions or circles and also address new conflicting/cooperative areas. Can conceptions of world order based on the unity of humankind be imagined without relying on essentialist and simplifying anthropologies; and what are the implications of such ‘new cosmopolitanisms’ for global cooperation? What can be expected of approaches which substitute the focus on human rationality with the emphasis on other human capacities, such as empathy or awareness of common vulnerability? What is the role of different conceptions of time and historical directionality? How have conflicts between largely irreconcilable conceptions of world orders (and political agendas) impacted on global cooperation? For instance, while economic growth is seen as instrumental for improving the lives of people particularly in the Global South, a contrary position would hold that sustainable human life is only possible under conditions of reduced growth and consumption, respect for nature, clean energies etc. Can such guiding principles or even ideologies also pave the way for new ways in global cooperation, such as new alliances and forms or will these competing views generate future conflicts?

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JoAnne Yates on her new book
by Ilana Gershon 01 Jun '20

01 Jun '20

Dear Colleagues, Michael Prentice interviews JoAnne Yates about her new book with Craig Murphy, Engineering Rules: Global Standard Setting Since 1880 -- the history of the organizations that set voluntary standards. Please check it out: https://campanthropology.org Best, Ilana

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Reminder: HIV and COVID-19 CFP
by Jaime García Iglesias 01 Jun '20

01 Jun '20

CFP for Culture, Health and Sexuality "Viral Times" Deadline for abstracts: June 16, 2020 We live in viral times: in just a few months, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused momentous alterations to our lives, society and culture. These changes—from the risk of infection to the stark highlighting of the inequality inherent to neoliberal systems—are of such depth that thinker Paul B. Preciado asked: “under what conditions and in which way would life be worth living?” Some current discussions by queer scholars about the social impacts of COVID-19 are informed by the cultural inheritance from the HIV and AIDS crisis that swept the world in 1980s and 1990s (and, both the virus and its cultural heritage remain endemic to many communities in the globe). However, at a broader level, many lessons from the AIDS crisis are being ignored, particularly those that highlight the importance of collective and community-based responses to the virus. At the same time, many political leaders have often excluded the humanities and social sciences, forgetting the essential role these subjects play in theorising through and about the HIV epidemic, and their key role of thinking about the conditions of the current situation. Instead, the “expert” advice spoken about by politicians has almost always only been limited to the medical sciences (which is usually presented as monolithic and incontrovertible) with little space provided for expert scholars in other areas to critically engage with the situation. This themed symposium in Culture, Health and Sexuality provides a space in which to ask: how might memory and culture of HIV inform our responses to COVID-19? In asking this question, we hope to foster critical engagements with the role of thinking about HIV and AIDS in the current culture of pandemic that address issues such as: - What lessons can HIV teach in developing or deploying critical and social public health? - What do the cultural responses to the virus look, sound and feel like across borders, groups and communities? What power dynamics does COVID-19 intersect with? - What are the material conditions of sexuality and health during an epidemic? - How might digital cultures mediate experiences of an epidemic? - Why and how is HIV an obvious precedent to COVID-19? - What are the risks and omissions of establishing a connection between HIV and COVID-19? - How might COVID-19 inform our memories of HIV? - What collective responses have we seen to COVID-19 and HIV and AIDS, and what can we learn by comparing them? - What does comparing COVID-19 and HIV and AIDS tell us about how lives matter? We call for contributions that critically engage with the relationship between HIV and COVID-19 and which address issues such as (but are not limited to): * Experiences of sexuality and intimacy in viral times, as well as the role of technology in developing intimacy, connection and embodiment * The material conditions of sex work and sexual health provision during an epidemic * The role of sex and sexuality: thinking about hook-ups and casual sociality during social distancing, the use and production of pornography, and the experiences of and need for physical and digital sex * Sexual health, prevention, risk and safer sex in viral times. * Agency, individuality, and victimhood, as well as notions of intimate and good/bad citizenship * Cultural memories and genealogies of COVID-19 and HIV: who remembers and who gets remembered * Responses to COVID-19 and HIV, particularly those from public health, politics and science * Media narratives of COVID-19, HIV and the AIDS crisis * Community and relational responses and activism * How stigma, prejudice and discrimination as well as inequalities have differentially influenced responses (particularly in times of scarcity and ‘war-time triage’), such as: socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, age, nationality, sexuality, or gender We remain open to other explorations that address the relationship between HIV and COVID-19 from culture, health and sexuality perspectives. Contributions are encouraged from a range of perspectives and disciplines, including but not limited to the social sciences and humanities. As we write this, we are painfully aware of the challenging emotional and labour conditions many scholars are currently experiencing, so we encourage collaborative, reflexive and creative pieces as well as writing that addresses these issues through autobiography, critical media and cultural studies, critical theory, queer theory and ethnography or lived experience. We hope the collection will bridge gaps between disciplines and fields to become an initial but enduring point of departure for longer-term conversations about these issues. Information about the submission process can be found here: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/viral-times/ Questions may be directed to jaime.garciaiglesias(a)manchester.ac.uk and maurice.nagington(a)manchester.ac.uk *Jaime Garcia-Iglesias* The University of Manchester Twitter <https://outlook.manchester.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=A_gZOKKCeUAotWHc_1i3ExusP…> ¦ Academia <https://outlook.manchester.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=Rgjwhvh-Nj7EqjH53AkxYFG26…> ¦ UoM <https://outlook.manchester.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=KcbFOtK5fr0gpIFVMAiLCtgC_…>

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Virtual Summer Speaker Series: Fake News & Disinformation and Its Spread
by Jeffery Joe Hemsley 01 Jun '20

01 Jun '20

Virtual Summer Speaker Series: Fake News & Disinformation and Its Spread The Center for Computational and Data Science (CCDS) in the iSchool at Syracuse University invites you to join us for our Virtual Summer Speaker Series. We will host three presentations in June, July and August. The theme for the series will focus on: Fake News & Disinformation and Its Spread. Event registration is required and we will be using Zoom as our virtual platform. Please find below the details and we look forward to welcoming these thought-provoking speakers. We hope you will join us this summer! Wednesday, June 17, 2020 12:00-1:00PM EST Disinformation, Political Networks and Social Media in Brazil This talk will discuss research results about how Brazilian political networks spread and legitimate disinformation on social media, focusing on types, characteristics and discursive strategies. Raquel Recuero is a professor at Federal University of Pelotas (UFPEL) and Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil, and a researcher for the National Research Council (CNPq). She is also the lead of MIDIARS (Research Laboratory on Discourse, Social Media and Social Networks). Sign-up: https://forms.gle/w7WotyFTpWYpuB5B7 Thursday, July 9, 2020 1:00-2:00PM EST Black Trolls Matter and Other Conclusions from Analyzing State-Sponsored This talk will discuss research Dr. Freelon conducted with colleagues on the Twitter component of the Internet Research Agency's (IRA) disinformation campaign before, during, and after the 2016 US elections. In particular, Deen will discuss the distinct appeal of Black-presenting trolls, how IRA tweets found their way into mainstream news articles, the types of audiences that consumed IRA content, and the IRA's effects on Twitter users' political opinions. Deen Freelon is an associate professor in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at UNC-Chapel Hill. These days he is mostly interested in disinformation, hyperpartisan communication, and computational methods. This research has been published in the following articles: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0894439320914853 https://www.pnas.org/content/117/1/243.short https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1940161219895215 https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/russian-disinformation-campai… Sign-up: https://forms.gle/iYJRdk71X7CnFLCL6 Wednesday, August 5, 2020 9:30-10:30AM EST Influencers, Misinformation, and 'Under the Radar' Strategies Drawing on research from various interconnected projects on influencer cultures and vigilante activism in Singapore and the Asia Pacific between 2011 and 2020, this talk provides a vernacular framework for thinking about the role of social media influencers, their involvement in circuits of (mis)information ecologies, and their innovative 'under the radar' strategies of communication, amplification, and suppression. Dr Crystal Abidin is a socio-cultural anthropologist of vernacular internet cultures, particularly influencer cultures, online visibility, and social media pop cultures especially in the Asia Pacific. She is Senior Research Fellow & ARC DECRA Fellow in Internet Studies and at the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University, and Affiliate Researcher with the Media Management and Transformation Centre at Jönköping University. Her books include Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online (2018), Microcelebrity Around the Globe: Approaches to Cultures of Internet Fame (co-editor Brown, 2018), Instagram: Visual Social Media Cultures (co-authors Leaver & Highfield, 2019), Mediated Interfaces: The Body on Social Media (co-editors Warfield & Cambre, 2020), and tumblr: Curation, Creativity and Community. (co-authors Tiidenberg & Hendry, forthcoming). Crystal was listed on Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia and Pacific Standard 30 Top Thinkers Under 30, and recently received the International Communication Association Popular Communication Early Career Scholar Prize and Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellowship. Reach her at wishcrys.com. Sign-up: https://forms.gle/LitdTXTPk27iYnFw6 Should you have any questions or issues please direct to Lisette Child, Project Manager for the CCDS at ldchild(a)syr.edu<mailto:ldchild@syr.edu>, or Jeff Hemsley, co-director of the Center for Computational and Data Sciences, at jjhemsle(a)syr.edu.

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Making Public Presents the Urgent Publishing Toolkit and Publication
by Geert Lovink 01 Jun '20

01 Jun '20

What strategies are available to publishers in the cultural and research domains to conceive, produce, and position their contents in an urgent way? In the two-year research project Making Public (2018-2020) conducted by the Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and partners, which has come to a close, methods and prototypes are developed to counter the contemporary speedy information sphere in new and different ways. Starting out from the observation that small-scale publishers often experience a trade-off between publishing under time pressure and upholding quality standards, we looked into other ways to conceive of timely publishing. Experiments with modular publishing, algorithmic recommendations, and digital remediation, have led to the development of hybrid content formats and new options for positioning publications with reading audiences. All of those are available in open access in the Urgent Publishing Toolkit. Central to the project is the concept of urgent publishing. Urgent publishing pertains both to timeliness and relevance. The final publication of the project, Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing offers an inquiry into urgency in publishing, next to presenting desk research and the experiments conducted by the three research groups. It develops a situated account of hybrid publishing, where authors, editors, publishers, designers, and readers operate together. The publication is available in open access, in both digital and print formats. The urgent publishing strategies that the prototypes and methods embody and that are described in detail in Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing focus on the following key notions: Relations between different content modules, that allow for multi-linear narratives and other (rhetorical) forms of presenting information. Trust in the network, both of publishers who can benefit from each other’s platforms and reach, and of readers who are interested in in-depth content. Remediation which allows publications to extend their afterlife and find readers by offering them ways to engage directly with materials. All information can be found on the website of the Institute of Network Cultures: Making Public website <https://networkcultures.org/makingpublic/> Urgent Publishing Toolkit <https://networkcultures.org/makingpublic/2020/05/14/urgent-publishing-toolk…> Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing <https://networkcultures.org/makingpublic/urgentpublishing/> Order your free paper copy here: https://networkcultures.org/publications/order-inc-publications/ <https://networkcultures.org/publications/order-inc-publications/> Collaborating partners: 1001 Publishers, Amateur Cities, Amsterdam University Press, ArtEZ University of the Arts, Hackers & Designers, Mind Design, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Open!, Open Set, Puntpixel, Studio BLT, Valiz, and Willem de Kooning Academy. The research was supported by Regieorgaan SIA (Taskforce for Applied Research).

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