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The Journal of Community Informatics is accepting new submissions
by Colin Rhinesmith 23 May '20

23 May '20

Dear colleagues, After a brief pause and transition in editorial leadership, the open access Journal of Community Informatics is accepting new submissions here: http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/information/authors <http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/information/authors> It is my honor to lead the journal as its third Editior-In-Chief, since the journal’s launch by Michael Gurstein in 2004. I want to thank Eduardo Villanueva-Mansilla for his leadership over these past years. I also want to thank Tom Denison who has joined Eduardo as the journal’s Associate Editors. The Editorial Board includes both new and returning members: http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/editorialBoard We are preparing our next issue for publication in Sept/Oct 2020. We look forward to receiving your submissions in the months and years ahead. Warm regards, Colin — Colin Rhinesmith (pronouns: he/him) Associate Professor and Director Community Informatics Lab School of Library and Information Science Simmons University phone: 617-521-2881 web: http://crhinesmith.com Editor-In-Chief Journal of Community Informatics http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej

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Livestreaming and the Christchurch massacre
by Yasmin Ibrahim 23 May '20

23 May '20

This may be of interest to those working in the intersections of critical race theory and digital economy/culture, Livestreaming the ‘wretched of the Earth’: The Christchurch massacre and the ‘death-bound subject’, in Ethnicities, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1468796820926746 best, yasmin Yasmin Ibrahim, PhD (LSE), FRSA, SFHEA Professor of Digital Economy and Culture (2019) The Politics of Gaze; The Image Economy Online, https://www.routledge.com/Politics-of-Gaze-The-Image-Economy-Online-1st-Edi… (2020) Fake News in an Era of Social Media, Tracking Viral Contagion, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786614216/Fake-News-in-an-Era-of-Social-Media-T… (2020) Digital Icons; Memes, Martyrs and Avatars, Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Digital-Icons-Memes-Martyrs-and-Avatars/Ibrahim/p…

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changes at INC, central list to discuss critical internet cultures
by Geert Lovink 23 May '20

23 May '20

Dear AoIR community, while we’re publishing a lot, here at the Institute of Network Cultures, trying to facilitate critical reflection on the corona with diaries and essays from around the world, we’re also planning a restart of INC. Digital publishing research and output will continue, as will the MoneyLab network that just got a board. The board can be rearched here: moneylab-board(a)networkcultures.org <mailto:moneclab-board@networkcultures.org>. As MoneyLab #8 Ljubjana was cancelled because of the corona crisis it turned into a weekly online lecture series, which just hosted Evgene Morozov. However, with a considerable legacy of projects, networks, publications (we started in 2004) and a heavy website aka archive, we noticed that we had to spend more and more time just on maintainance. It became harder to start new things (also due to changes in the Dutch cultural funding structures). Finally we’re about to do something about this. As a start, five mailinglists (MoneyLab, Video Vortex, re-search, Unlike Us and CPOV) have been discontinued and have been replaced by one INC list (also responding to the widespread idea of email being a ‘dead medium’). If you want, please subscribe here: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/inc-synthesis_listcultures.org <http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/inc-synthesis_listcultures.org> The synthesis list has three objectives: 1. To inform the wider net community about INC projects and activities. 2. To foster debates about net criticism, tactical media, hacktivism and research into critical network cultures from multiple perspectives such as design and the arts, activism and research. 3. To create links between different INC research fields that were previous running as different projects about online video, crypto currencies, search, social media, future of art criticism etc. The name 'synthesis' expresses a desire to overcome different disciplines, fields and scenes in order to strengthen the critical forces in arts, tech and society. Soon we will see what other new channels will work to debate, maintain communities, inform and support each other. Please approach us if you have ideas and suggestions, also for common projects, grants, publications, campaigns and other forms of poetry. Keep on questioning, Geert and the INC team — Two recent publications: Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing https://networkcultures.org/makingpublic/urgentpublishing/ <https://networkcultures.org/makingpublic/urgentpublishing/> Listening into Others: An Ethnographic Exploration in Govindpuri by Tripta Chandola https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod36-listening-into-others-an… <https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod36-listening-into-others-an…>

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HICSS G&G CfP Updated
by Nathaniel Poor 22 May '20

22 May '20

HICSS CfP: Game Scholars and Hawaii in January? Submission deadline extended to July 15. Games & Gaming (Social and Digital Media) 54th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) January 5-8, 2021, at the Grand Hyatt, Kauai UPDATE from the Conference Organizers, who live in Hawaii: We recognize that present circumstances are difficult for many and that uncertainty about the evolving situation demands flexibility. Together with the Grand Hyatt Kauai and the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau, we are constantly monitoring the outbreak situation with the goal to safely welcome you to HICSS. As we get closer to the conference date, we will provide you on our website with more details about the conference arrangements, and advise you when and how to prepare for your trip to Hawaii. And if it becomes evident that convening in Kauai is not advisable, we will timely propose an alternate solution to preserve as much as possible the HICSS experience. G&G CfP: For the fifth straight year, the Games & Gaming minitrack at HICSS is looking for research on the social aspects of digital gaming. We feature work DATES April 20: Submission site opens (see http://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/ ) NEW July 15: Submission deadline (changed from June 15) NEW August 23: Decision notification (changed from August 17) September 22: Camera ready version due October 1: Registration deadline January 5-8: Conference? TOPICS Esports Fantasy sports leagues Streaming gameplay (e.g., Twitch) Game curation via sites like Steam Fans and fan communities Community management Social affordances of games Network analysis of groups and communities in games Social practices (in-game, out-game, both) Player communities Toxicity online Multiplayer games Cooperative and competitive play Multigenerational play Intercultural play URLS HICSS: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/ Author Instructions: http://hicss.hawaii.edu/authors/ Digital and Social Media track: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-54/digital-and-social-media/ CO-CHAIRS Nathaniel Poor (Primary Contact Co-Chair) Underwood Institute natpoor(a)gmail.com Kelly Bergstrom University of Hawai’i at Mānoa kelly.bergstrom(a)hawaii.edu Kishonna Gray University of Illinois, Chicago unicorn(a)uic.edu ------------------------------- Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D. (he/him/his) http://github.com/natpoor http://natpoor.blogspot.com/ http://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/ http://www.underwood-institute.org/

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Book Series: Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference
by Schultermandl, Silvia (silvia.schultermandl＠uni-graz.at) 22 May '20

22 May '20

SERIES TITLE: Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference SERIES EDITOR/S: May Friedman, Ryerson University (Canada); Silvia Schultermandl, University of Graz (Austria) This book series brings together analyses of familial and kin relationships with emerging and new technologies which allow for the creation, maintenance and expansion of family. We use the term “family” as a working truth with a wide range of meanings in an attempt to address the feelings of family belonging across all aspects of social location: ability, age, race, ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, gender identity, body size, social class and beyond. This book series aims to explore phenomena located at the intersection of technologies including those which allow for family creation, migration, communication, reunion and the family as a site of difference. The individual volumes in this series will offer insightful analyses of the representations of these phenomena in media, social media, literature, popular culture and corporeal settings. Possible book topics include: • the use of technology and migration and family composition and disjunction; the ways that technologies may both push and pull kin together/apart • the range of technology use across literal and figurative space including intersections of geography, age, poverty, gender and beyond • the impact of technological absence: the ways that technologies may be taken for granted in particular environments (privileged nations; privileged subject positions) and may be denied or inaccessible in other spaces or places • technologies of family creation and maintenance: the use of alternate reproductive technologies; the use of communication technologies to share information; • queer family creation and representation through technology; making queer family visible through traditional, popular and social media; alternate family connections including nonnormative parenting arrangements (more than two parents, multiple different shades of parenting); “new” family through donor sibling relationships; • technologies of class mobility, including the impact of smartphone technology on mediating/curtailing aspects of the digital divide; shifting family relationships through generational moves in class status • fat family: the ways that narratives of obesity have had impacts on the creation and representation of family (for example: obese women who are denied reproductive technologies or access to international adoption); the ways these rhetorics have shifted differently in different jurisdictions; representation of fat family; intersection of fat and working class identities in popular culture • trans families: both in terms of gender identity but also in terms of other families that “confound”—families that do not “match” one another, or that otherwise transgress normative models • technologies of disability: the use of technology to enhance or bolster independence, the ways that disabled people are seen as incapable of parenting; on the other hand, the technologies which come into play around parenting children with disability, both prenatally and once children are born; representation of disability and family (fetishization and the perceived martyrdom of parents) Please send inquiries to may.friedman(a)ryerson.ca AND silvia.schultermandl(a)uni-graz.at

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Registration now open for ‘Disrupting Digital Monolingualism’ workshop
by Naomi Wells 22 May '20

22 May '20

Dear colleagues, Registration is now open for an online workshop on the theme of ‘Disrupting Digital Monolingualism’ on 16th and 17th June 2020 (https://languageacts.org/digital-mediations/event/disrupting-digital-monoli…<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flanguagea…>). This two-day virtual workshop will bring together leading researchers, educators, digital practitioners, language-focused professionals, policy makers and other interested parties to address the challenges of multilingualism in digital spaces and to collectively present new models and solutions. The workshop will combine both conceptual (strategy, policy and theory) and practical perspectives (digital ecosystems, methods and tools with a focus on language). It is hosted by the AHRC-funded ‘Language Acts & Worldmaking’ project with the support of the ‘Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community’ project. The workshop will include a combination of lightning talks, demos, posters, panels and a mini-workshop, and we encourage participation on social channels. You can register here: https://languageacts.org/digital-mediations/event/disrupting-digital-monoli…<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flanguagea…> Further information about the workshop is available here: https://languageacts.org/digital-mediations/event/disrupting-digital-monoli…<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flanguagea…> Attendance is free but registration is essential. Book your place and you will be sent an access link to attend the workshop online, along with the event programme (including abstracts, speaker bios and panel details) a few days prior to the event. Kind regards Paul Spence, Renata Brandão and Naomi Wells (on behalf of the organising committee) Dr Naomi Wells Early Career Researcher in Italian and Spanish with Digital Humanities Institute of Modern Languages Research School of Advanced Study | University of London Room 238 | Senate House | Malet Street | London WC1E 7HU | UK Email: naomi.wells(a)sas.ac.uk http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/ https://digitalmodernlanguages.wordpress.com/

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Participations: Latest issue out now!
by Judith Rosenbaum-Andre 22 May '20

22 May '20

Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies has just released its latest issue! This open-access journal features three special sections. The first is aimed at understanding readers, reading, and digital media, the second looks at interviews as a research method, and the third section features nine essays from the University of Wales at Aberystwyth conference on "Researching past cinema audiences: Archives, Memories and Methods". With an editorial introduction by Martin Barker and a series of articles that provide innovative theoretical, methodological, as well as empirical insights, including the audience reception of professional wrestling stars, the circulation of film and cultural capital, and the understanding of resistance as observed in online discussions, this issue is packed with relevant and contemporary insight into audience research in 2019. The issue can be found here: http://www.participations.org/Volume%2016/Issue%201/contents.htm -- Judith E. Rosenbaum, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Communication and Journalism University of Maine 414 Dunn Hall Orono, ME 04469 www.juditherosenbaum.com/ @JudithRBaum

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WEBCAST TODAY: CyberSecurity Webinar
by Joly MacFie 22 May '20

22 May '20

This is underway. Olaf just said "Internet routing is a whispering game." Again a reminder you can go and make your own clips at https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive ISOC Live posted: "On Friday 22 May 2020 at 6:30-7:30pm IST (13:00-14:00 UTC) the Internet Society Rural Development Special Interest Group (RuralISOCSIG) and the Internet Society Cybersecurity SIG (CyberSecSIG) present a livestream webinar 'CyberSecurity'. Speakers: 1. Dr" [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cybersecurity>On *Friday 22 May 2020* at *6:30-7:30pm IST* (13:00-14:00 UTC) the *Internet Society Rural Development Special Interest Group <https://ruralisocsig.org/>* (RuralISOCSIG) and the *Internet Society Cybersecurity SIG <https://cybersecsig.org/>* (CyberSecSIG) present a livestream webinar '*CyberSecurity <https://ruralisocsig.org/cybersecurity-webinar>*'. *Speakers*: 1. *Dr. Olaf Kolkman*, the Principal - Internet Technology, Policy, and Advocacy at the Internet Society. 2. *Dr. Kotikalapudi Sriram*, a senior engineer at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland. *LIVESTREAM: http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cybersecurity <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cybersecurity>* *TWITTER: @IsocSig <http://bit.ly/IsocSig> | @CyberSecSIG <https://twitter.com/CyberSecSIG> #cybersecurity* *Permalink*: https://isoc.live/12091/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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reporting hate speech on WhatsApp
by F N 22 May '20

22 May '20

Dear All, In terms of hate speech in WhatsApp, is there anyway to monitor if action is taken against a particular group after one reports it to WhatsApp(similar to the message in Facebook which arrives as response about the action taken/not taken after a report)? From my understanding, there is no such option. In such a circumstance, is going to the law enforcement authorities the only option? Any suggestions on literature on this will be very useful. Thanks a lot Fathima

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Re: [Air-L] Question about Twitter data privacy policy
by Sugar, Benjamin Nathan 21 May '20

21 May '20

Hi Gimena, You’re right it is slightly nuanced. For the information you are sharing (which if I understand is *only* the text of the tweet), unless their TOS has changed (always good to hedge) yes, you can. I don’t believe the format (e.g. csv vs. a database) matters. What you cannot do, is make tweets available in their entirety. In that case, you can only share tweet id’s and others must “rehydrate” them. Twarc from the Documenting the Now project can extract the Tweet ID's very easily. You do need to run a command in a terminal, but if you can double click on an app icon, and type a sentence, you can do it and I’m happy to help! https://www.docnow.io/ https://github.com/DocNow/twarc#dehydrate If you have the time/resources, consider making the ID a field in your data. There have been a few times when someone’s project inspired an idea but it would have required a part of the tweet that was missing from the dataset. Benjamin

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