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Free/open access resources on living with datafication / data visualization in society
by Helen Kennedy 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

Hello all Forgive the well-intentioned self-promotion. I’m writing to share links to some free, open access resources about living with datafication / data visualization in society: Public Understanding and Perceptions of Data Practices: a review of existing research <https://livingwithdata.org/current-research/publications/> (by Helen Kennedy, Susan Oman, Mark Taylor, Jo Bates, Robin Steedman) is an extensive review of existing empirical research (from 2015 to 2020) into public understandings and perceptions of datafication. Data Visualization in Society <https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463722902/data-visualization-in-society> (edited by Martin Engebretsen and Helen Kennedy, published by Amsterdam University Press) is a multi-disciplined and multi-faceted conversation concerning the forms, uses and roles of data visualization in society. Both publications attempt, in part, to link data/dataviz to wider concerns by addressing the role of structural inequalities in shaping experiences of data and visualization. Best wishes Helen -- Helen Kennedy, Professor of Digital Society, @hmtk, Living With Data <https://livingwithdata.org/> *RECENT PUBLICATIONS: * Public perceptions of good data management: findings from a UK-based survey <https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053951720935616>, *Big Data and Society* (June 2020, w/Todd Hartman, Robin Steedman & Rhia Jones) Complex ecologies of trust in data practices and data-driven systems <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1748090>, *Information, Communication & Society* (April 2020, w/Robin Steedman & Rhia Jones) Approaching public perceptions of datafication through the lens of inequality: a case study in public service media <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1736122>, *Information, Communication & Society *(March 2020, w/Robin Steedman & Rhia Jones)

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Datafication and the Welfare State - Special Issue in Global Perspectives
by Lina Dencik 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

Members of this list might be interested in this new special issue on 'Datafication and the Welfare State' edited by Lina Dencik and Anne Kaun and published open access in Global Perspectives: https://online.ucpress.edu/gp/pages/dws The collection of articles in the special issue illustrate the breadth and depth in which the process of datafication of the welfare state has taken shape. Although they congregate around case studies from Western societies, they situate these within a global context and engage with questions that are applicable to developments happening around the world. The articles unite around an understanding of datafication as a political development that has significant implications for how we think about the welfare state. These stretch across the shifting nature of public service media, the allocation of benefits, the assessment of the unemployed, the construction of population registers and the varying regulatory frameworks in different countries. Through these different case studies and analyses we are provided with a rich and in-depth exploration of the most recent expressions of how democratic values and state-citizen relations are changing with and through datafication. Best, Lina -- Dr Lina Dencik Reader / Co-Director Data Justice Lab PI Data Justice: Understanding datafication in relation to social justice (DATAJUSTICE) ERC Starting Grant 2018-2023 School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University Two Central Square, Central Square, Cardiff CF10 1FS Email: DencikL(a)cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:DencikL@cardiff.ac.uk>, Tel: +44 (0)29 208 75461 Twitter: @LinaDencik Fellow, Center for Media, Data and Society, Central European University

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CFP on AI and Fictions - International conference in Paris, 3-5 June 2021
by Melanie Dulong de Rosnay 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

Dear colleagues, We are happy to share the call for proposals of an international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Fictions we co-organise from 3 to 5 June 2021 in Paris. A call for papers is open until 30 September 2020. https://cis.cnrs.fr/ia-fictions/ Kind regards, -- Melanie Dulong de Rosnay Associate research professor, CNRS https://cis.cnrs.fr/melanie-dulong/ Director, Center for Internet and Society of CNRS http://www.cis.cnrs.fr/en.html ---------- AI Fictions / Artificial Intelligence and Fictions This international conference, organized by the University Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, in partnership with the Center for Internet and Society, will be held in Paris from 3 to 5 June 2021. A call for papers is open until 30 September 2020. This is the first conference ever organized on the theme of Artificial Intelligence in fiction (literature, series, films, comics, video games): the focus will be on representations of AI and their meanings, as well as the creative uses of AI to produce and understand fiction. A road trip entirely written by an artificial intelligence embedded in a car, Ross Goodwin's /1 the road/ has joined at the start of the 2019 literary season a whole series of texts whose common point was to stage and act out a dream of automation and artificialization of literary language, whose genealogy goes back at least to the first automatic writings of Oulipo: artificial intelligence is no longer just a fiction but a tool for producing fiction. Hito Steyerl revisits the narrative power of documentary film using deep learning algorithms to better question its ability to shape reality; /Second Earth /by Gregory Chatonsky takes us into a new world whose automatically generated images already tell the story, while by associating two images to a logical connector he shows the power of an algorithm to create a small story (/If... then/, 2009). Embodied in figures, familiar, AI now offers incarnations that cannot be resolved on the apocalyptic horizon of robots waiting for the hour of singularity to triumph over the human species. AI is no longer just the object of a fantasy but is gradually becoming an everyday tool through facial recognition or personal assistants, while the first tools of predictive writing and cultural recommendation are emerging and it is announced that a story produced by an artificial intelligence would have been a finalist for a literary prize in Japan. We already knew the very rich mythology of AI in cinema, from 2001's /Odyssey of Spac/e to Spielberg's /A.I. Artificial Intelligence/, via /Terminator /or /Her/: each time, the political, ethical and social stakes of AI open up avenues for deep critical reflection and question the most essential philosophical categories by which we think about mankind and our place in the world. But AI is now taking on a concrete presence. /Databiographie /by Charly Delwart proposes to retrace a destiny based on digital data and their visualisations; /Le_zéro_et_le_un.txt /by Josselin Bordat tries to stage an artificial intelligence in the process of awakening to the world, /Kétamine /by Zoé Sagan sets a scene of a "predictive" journalist centred on data: never have we been so close to artificial agents that are integrated into our lives. Moving from fantasy to computer tools, the fictional representations of AI are thus added to the fictional representations of the emerging uses of narrative AI by opening up a field of opportunity and fear for culture: on the one hand, creation by AI or assisted by AI can offer a major experimental field of interest to both conceptual writers and storytelling practitioners. On the other hand, the way in which culture is "dated" and the way in which these dates are analyzed can profoundly affect the fiction industry and its attention control, further multiplying our perplexity about the emergence of artificial narrative intelligence. Contributors are invited to consider one or other of these topics: - examples of fictions produced by AI: tools, projects, applications, games; - the computer methods used: GAN, machine learning, deep learning; - AI's fiction: robots, cyborgs, computers; - the themes of post-humanism, singularity, utopias and dystopias of AI; - the cultural history of representations of AI and its inventors (Alan Turing for example); - criticism produced by AI: audience analysis, scenario analysis, cultural recommendation algorithms; - the analysis of fiction by AI methods in the field of Digital Humanities; - the legal problems induced by creation: law, data sharing, tax system; - the narrative aesthetics of AI, the link with conceptual art and performance literature; - the transformation of theoretical categories by AI and the modification of the vocabulary of criticism and aesthetic philosophy, from the notion of narration to that of literature; - the representation of psychological, ethical and political problems induced by AI, from Asimov's three laws of robotics to /Westworld/; - the philosophical dimension of fictional reflection on AI: the problem of freedom, consciousness, agentivity, autonomy; - AI as a way of questioning the question of minorities, the topic of vulnerability, the frontiers of the human, the frontier of gender, the frontier of species. The conference will take place at the Maison de la recherche of the University of Paris 3 - Sorbonne nouvelle, Maison de la recherche, 3 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris, from 3 to 5 June 2021. Proposals in English or French (1 page + 1 short bio-bibliography) should be sent to ia.fiction.2021(a)gmail.com <mailto:ia.fiction.2021@gmail.com> before 30 September 2020. Conference organized by Alexandre Gefen (CNRS/Paris 3) with Marida di Crosta (Marge, Université de Lyon III), Ksenia Ermoshina (CNRS, Centre Internet et Société), Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel (Université of Geneva), Léa Saint-Raymond (ENS).

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Ethics and Information Security Education
by ijwa＠dline.info 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

INFORMATION SECURITY EDUCATION JOURNAL Rev. Dr. Joseph R. Laracy, Editor-in-chief Dr. Thomas Marlowe, Associate Editor Dr. Ziyuan Meng, Special Issue Editor Call for Papers: Special Issue on Ethics and Information Security Education As information technology continues to reshape society, security issues have become increasingly multifaceted. Security in modern technological society must consider software, hardware, communication, and physical structures, as well as human behavior and social conditions (e.g., social engineering). It embraces privacy, confidentiality, functional integrity, and intellectual property, as well as overlapping with safety, economic, and social concerns. Thus, ethical issues are inherent and pervasive in the security universe, and need to be a focus of security education. The call for papers for this special issue aims to tackle unprecedented ethical challenges in information security. We invite manuscripts that present state-of-art research on emerging security-related ethical issues in different technological domains and their significance in education. We also encourage submission on critical re-evaluation of information security ethical theories, practice, methodologies, and their philosophical foundation. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): � Professional codes of ethics and ethical behavior. � Ethics in data science and data analytics. � Ethics and statistics. � Reputation and ethics�reputation management, responsibility of social media to users. � Intellectual property, secrecy, security, and safety�risks, tradeoffs, and ethical concerns. � Ethics in software development. � Ethical hacking. � Legal restrictions (e.g., HIPAA) and ethics�overlaps and issues. � Accessibility as an ethical concern. � Ethics in zero-day vulnerability knowledge management and marketing. � Philosophical foundations of information security ethics. The final deadline for submissions is November 30, 2020. Questions pertaining to the special issue should be directed to the special issue editor, Dr. Ziyuan Meng via email at: [1]zmeng(a)drew.edu Submission Instructions: Please submit manuscripts using the journal website: [2]http://www.dline.info/isej/submission.php About: ISEJ seeks to collect and publish high-quality research, perspective, and best practice articles on the instructional challenges and innovations associated with Information Security teaching and learning in post-secondary educational settings. Information Security education includes curriculum development and implementation, best practices in the teaching of information security theoretical and practical topics, InfoSec laboratory experiences and exercises, and other related pedagogical topics. It publishes original and scholarly papers after rigorous peer review. References 1. mailto:zmeng@drew.edu 2. http://www.dline.info/isej/submission.php

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Yale ISP series - Everything You Need to Know About Section 230 in 5 Hours
by Joly MacFie 30 Jun '20

30 Jun '20

Last week the Information Society Project at Yale Law School <https://law.yale.edu/isp/> ran a 5 part webinar series Everything You Need to Know About Section 230 in 5 Hours <https://law.yale.edu/isp/events/everything-you-need-know-about-section-230-…> In fact, it ran 7.5 hours. Panels were moderated by Kate Klonick, and included Olivier Sylvain, Alexander The recordings are being rolled out on the Yale ISP YouTube channel <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcBU4Qr8nQsjX6Nt_iGH8qg/> Thus far we have *The History of 230* Jeff Kosseff, Assistant Professor of Cybersecurity Law at the United States Naval Academy Eric Goldman, Professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law Mary Anne Franks, Professor of Law at Miami Law School https://youtu.be/Br2c91hmIik *What 230 Meant for Telecom and Agencies* Blake Reid, Clinical Professor at University of Colorado Law School Olivier Sylvain, Professor of Law at Fordham University Law School Tejas Narechania, Assistant Professor of Law at Berkeley Law School https://youtu.be/cW68D8-YOnQ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Exchanges Journal: New issue published & CFP
by Johnson, Gareth 30 Jun '20

30 Jun '20

Dear all, Delighted to announce the latest issue of Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal (V7.3) is now live. This issue includes articles on game playing lizards, academic fraud, televisual Shakespeare, cultural cannibalism and reflections on computer gaming scholarship. It also contains a conversation with University College Dublin’s Professor Quinn DuPont on the topic of the Distributed Autonomous Organisation. https://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/issue/view/28 As a journal dedicated to engendering both interdisciplinary discourse and encouraging early career researchers to publish, I'd like to draw your attention to our thematic call for papers on the theme of ‘Challenge and Opportunity’. https://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/announcement/view/23 With thanks Gareth --- About Exchanges Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal (ISSN 2053-9665) is a scholar-led, peer-reviewed, open access, interdisciplinary, online-only journal dedicated to the publication of high-quality work by researchers in all disciplines. Launched in 2013 the title particularly attracts innovative research articles from emerging domain experts and early career researchers, but also seeks to publish scholarly work by authors who combine research with academic teaching or other professional employment. The journal utilises a double-blind, editor-mediated and editor mediated managed peer-review model to ensure quality assurance. --- Dr Gareth (Gaz) J Johnson Managing Editor-in-Chief, Exchanges Journal Room C0.10, Institute of Advanced Study, Zeeman Building, University of Warwick https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias/ T: 024 765 7443 (extn 74423) E: gareth.johnson(a)warwick.ac.uk<mailto:gareth.johnson@warwick.ac.uk> B: https://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/exchangesias/ Tw:@ExchangesIAS<https://twitter.com/ExchangesIAS>

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Next Speaker of Virtual Summer Speaker Series, Fake News & Disinformation and Its Spread: Deen Freelon
by Jeffery Joe Hemsley 30 Jun '20

30 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 second speaker in the Virtual Summer Speaker Series: 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 our remaining two thought-provoking speakers. We hope you will join us this summer! Thursday, July 9, 2020 1:00-2:00PM EST Black Trolls Matter and Other Conclusions from Analyzing State-Sponsored Disinformation 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<mailto:jjhemsle@syr.edu>.

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CFP: 2020 E-society Virtual Conference on Sept. 8-9 (Abstract Deadline July 15)
by Frank Liu 30 Jun '20

30 Jun '20

Dear colleagues and AoIR members, Please help circulate this final CFP for the interdisciplinary virtual conference on E-society Research. https://www.esocietysummit.net/ The deadline of the abstract submission is on July 15. Thank you. Sincerely, Frank -- Frank C.S. Liu Professor & Director, Institute of Political Science, National Sun Yat-Sen University 804 Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C. E-mail: csliu(a)mail.nsysu.edu.tw <mailto:csliu@mail.nsysu.edu.tw>

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CFP: Journal of Peer Production #15 TRANSITION
by Mathieu.O'Neil 30 Jun '20

30 Jun '20

CFP: Journal of Peer Production #15 TRANSITION <apologies for multiple posts> PEER PRODUCTION AND OUR CRISES Peer producers are people who create and manage common-pool resources together. It sometimes seems as if “peer production” and “digital commons” can be used interchangeably. Digital commons such as free and open source software and Wikipedia are non-rivalrous (they can be reproduced at little or no cost) and non-excludable (no-one can prevent others from using them, through property rights for example). So, practically speaking, proprietary objects could be produced by equal “peers”. We argue that peer production has a normative dimension so that what chiefly characterizes this mode of production is that “the output is orientated towards the further expansion of the commons; while the commons, recursively, is the chief resource in this mode of production” (Söderberg & O'Neil, 2014, p. 2). The Journal of Peer Production has tracked the evolution of peer production from open knowledge to open design and manufacturing. It approaches its ten-year anniversary in the time of the global pandemic, and of the continuing environmental crisis. The impacts of Covid-19 are profound, but will not last forever, though local infection pools may subsist in poorer countries for much longer than in the Global North. In contrast, the environmental crisis is here to stay. THE ROLE OF THE JOURNAL OF PEER PRODUCTION Significant social change is required to stave off climate destruction, and principles such as cooperation and trust, transparency in production, collective democratic decision-making, etc., can usefully contribute to necessary processes of “relocalization” and “degrowth”.* What should be done to develop the digital and physical commons? What role should the Journal of Peer Production play in this development? And what shape should it take? It is clear that in addition to maintaining its uniquely transparent curation and dissemination of academic research, the Journal of Peer Production needs to expand its work in several ways: -Should it feature more practical advice to develop commons, such as toolkits and how-to guides? -Should it comprise policy proposals to help grow the infrastructure which supports the commons? -In other words, should it combine research and action? The answer is "yes" in all three cases. To this end we seek creative, practical and policy-oriented ideas to help invent a new type of scientific journal that both fulfills strict academic criteria, and brings research work closer to practice. Our next issue, JOPP #15 will thus be a "TRANSITION" issue featuring, in addition to peer-reviewed research, experimental formats and "meta" articles. JOPP #15 TRANSITION - Call for Papers We seek investigations into societal transition (how can we move towards a society where contributions to the commons are valued and recognised?), into the journal's editorial transition (how should the Journal of Peer Production change to assist this societal transition), as well as idiosyncratic understandings of scientific and political transitions. JOPP #15 TRANSITION - Peer-reviewed articles + Complement We invite submissions of peer-reviewed academic papers from multiple fields on how "things can change". What are the sociological and historical conditions for transition to occur? For example: what is the impact of manifestos? When is innovation socialised? How can allies be enrolled? etc. Editorial guidelines for peer-reviewed articles: max 8,000 words; peer-reviewed in accordance with the JOPP peer review process See http://peerproduction.net/peer-review/process/ For this TRANSITION issue, academic papers must be complemented by a shorter piece in which the contents of the academic paper are transformed into a different format. The nature of this transformation is up to the authors. We can suggest the following: policy guidelines; practical toolkits; comic-books; etc. Other authors may be enlisted to assist in the article's transition. Editorial guidelines for complementary pieces: max 2,000 words; reviewed by the editors. JOPP #15 TRANSITION - Non peer-reviewed articles We also invite submissions of non-peer reviewed academic papers dealing with transition. These will be reviewed by the editors. A-Follow-up papers Papers "following-up" on previous issues of JOPP, or on specific articles by the authors or others. What has changed since this article was published? B-Policy and strategic papers Papers bringing together academics and policy makers. Strategies for connecting to actors in government and/or civil society. C-Meta papers Papers on the question of impactful academic publishing: how can academics pursue a career and have social impact at the same time? Papers on the transition of research fields: how do research fields evolve to better meet their aims? Rewriting influential papers, or a chapter of a classic book, or revisiting one's own past paper: what has changed? Editorial guidelines for A, B, and C: max 4,000 words. TRANSITION: TIMELINE CFP released 30 June 2020 EOI peer-reviewed articles deadline (500-words max. extended abstract + 100-words max. complementary paper abstract) 30 July 2020 EOI non peer-reviewed articles deadline (250-words max. abstract) 30 July 2020 Authors advised 30 August 2020 First submission sent out for review 30 November 2020 Reviews due 30 January 2021 Revised submissions due 30 March 2021 Signals due 30 May 2021 JOPP # 15 released 30 June 2021 ==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-==-== *The following is an excerpt from the final chapter of the forthcoming Handbook of Peer Production (Wiley, 2021), “Be Your Own Peer! Principles and Policies for the Commons” (O’Neil, Toupin, Pentzold): The governance of peer produced projects, one of the central aspects of the studies of peer production, aspires to the self-regulation of participants in autonomous collectives. This governance raises the broader issue of political sovereignty. The appeal of self-governance for peer production participants can perhaps be explained by the amount of strategic control most citizens in liberal democracies have over their lives and environment. This control has been drastically reduced by unaccountable global actors – e.g. financial markets, extractive industrial interests, supranational trade agreements, and the list goes on – who influence and constrain the policy options of notionally democratic nation-states. In the early 2020s, racist nativism and authoritarianism are being embraced by some people in reaction to the failures of export-oriented, deregulated, and globalized neoliberalism. A way out of this political crisis is linked to a solution to the environmental crisis: we must head toward more democracy by relocalizing or deglobalizing, and towards more sustainability by degrowing, our economies. As engaged researchers, we believe the Handbook of Peer Production needs to offer a response, however modest, to these political and ecological challenges. Addressing the macro-economic aspects of “deglobalization” would lead us far away from peer production, towards issues which would probably require a Handbook of their own. Accordingly, we focus here on relocalization as it relates to degrowth (décroissance), the downscaling of over-production and over-consumption (Kallis, 2019; Latouche, 2006). In a nutshell: unlimited growth and consumption are not sustainable, so we need more access to free public services, a shorter work week, and a turn towards climate-friendly industries. In this context, Stefania Barca (2019) suggests that the one question that matters is that posed by self-governing workers: “should surplus value be reinvested in production, or not”? Yet since only a handful of firms and industrial sectors are run following so-called “holacratic” (i.e., communal or participatory) principles, degrowth must – in a first stage at least – be deployed in a piecemeal, hybrid manner. In the context of discussing the cooperative sector, Gibson-Graham (2003) suggest that if we perceive economic relations as already plural, then the revolutionary “project of replacement” can be modified into one of “strengthening already existing non-capitalist economic processes and building new non-capitalist enterprises,” of establishing “communal subjects” (p. 157). Several chapters in the Handbook of Peer Production [...] have discussed ways in which this “strengthening” has begun to occur at the municipal level. However, as noted by Adrian Smith (2014) in his account of London’s early-1980s Technology Networks (community-based workshops which provided open access to shared machine tools, technical advice, and prototyping services), a “key lesson from this history is that “radical aspirations invested in workshops, such as democratizing technology, will need to connect to wider social mobilizations capable of bringing about reinforcing political, economic and institutional change” (Smith, 2014, online). In other words, the ecology around peer production must be nurtured. Further, adopting strictly local settings leaves the public policy terrain open to neoliberal and/or reactionary perspectives. References Barca, S. (2019) The labor(s) of degrowth. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 30(2), 207–216. Gibson-Graham, J.K. (2003). Enabling ethical economies: Cooperativism and class. Critical Sociology. 29(2): 123-164. Kallis, G. (2019) Socialism without growth. 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Job Search - Research Fellow in Digital Culture - University of Sussex
by Kate O'Riordan 30 Jun '20

30 Jun '20

The School of Media, Arts and Humanities at the University of Sussex is looking to appoint a Research Fellow in Digital Culture Appointment from 1 September 2020 to contribute to developing research in digital media cultures in the school. The successful candidate will normally: • Possess a completed doctorate in a relevant academic discipline • Demonstrate evidence of engagement in high-quality research activity • Contribute to the development of digital media, arts and humanities research • Engage with digital production, arts and/or cultural practices, and/or digital humanities and methods. • Demonstrate research links to feminist science studies, critical race studies and/or work on gender and sexuality 1 To conduct practice based and/or theoretically based research activity in areas across digital culture, digital arts and digital humanities, with an ability to engage with critical race studies, feminist science studies and queer studies. 2 To undertake independent as well as guided and collaborative research on projects engaging with intersections across race, gender, sexuality and aspects of digital culture including genomics, algorithms, machine learning and AI. https://www.sussex.ac.uk/about/jobs/research-fellow-in-digital-culture-ref-…

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