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The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Call for Submissions (Deadline June 30, 2020)
by Communication ＠JITP 21 May '20

21 May '20

*The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy * *General Issue* *with a Forum on Data and Computational Pedagogy * *Issue Editors: Gregory Palermo (Northeastern University)* *Brandon Walsh (University of Virginia Library)* *Editorial Assistant: Kelly Hammond (CUNY Graduate Center) * Call for submissions URL: https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/call-for-submissions/ The *Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy* (JITP) seeks scholarly work at the intersection of technology with teaching, learning, and research. We are interested in contributions that creatively take advantage of the affordances of digital platforms and critique their limitations. We invite both textual and multimedia submissions employing interdisciplinary and innovative approaches in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Besides scholarly papers, the submissions can consist of audio or visual presentations and interviews, dialogues, or conversations; creative/artistic works; manifestos; or other scholarly materials, including work that addresses the labor and care considerations of academic technology projects. For this issue, we will accept both general submissions on any topic within the field, and contributions destined for a subsection featuring conversations on Data and Computational Pedagogy. *Forum on Data and Computational Pedagogy* As algorithms dynamically categorize, distribute, and elevate certain kinds of information, and play an increasing role in shaping experiences of data, how are we fostering students’ critical engagement with using and making data? This featured section will showcase submissions addressing the challenges and opportunities emerging from thinking about computation, pedagogy, and data literacy together. How, when, and to what effect are educators encouraging facility with the transformation and re-presentation of data? How do educators and students grapple with issues of power and agency when using data? What pedagogical interventions might help our readers to think differently about data or computational literacy? How might our understanding of data analysis as a transformative and literate practice structure research on teaching? Pedagogical contributions that draw upon related theoretical debates are more than welcome, such as those in critical algorithm studies, data feminism and ethics, critical code studies, science and technology studies, computational humanities, writing analytics, algorithmic rhetoric, literacy studies, and information science. To float ideas and proposals for this forum specifically, please contact us at admin(a)jitpedagogy.org. *Brief Guidelines for Submissions* Research-based submissions should include discussions of approach, method, and analysis, so as to provide a teachable model for future researchers. When possible, research data should be made publicly available and accessible via the Web and/or other digital mechanisms, a process that JITP can and will support as necessary. Successes and interesting failures are equally welcome. Submissions that focus on pedagogy should balance theoretical frameworks with practical considerations of how new technologies play out in both formal and informal educational settings. Discipline-specific submissions should be written for non-specialists. For further information on style and formatting, accessibility requirements, and multimedia submissions, consult JITP’s accessibility guidelines <https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/submit/#accessibility>, style guide <https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/submit/#style-guide> and multimedia submission guidelines <https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/multimedia-submission-guidelines-and-best-…> . *Submission and Review Process* All work appearing in the Issues section of JITP is reviewed by the issue editors and independently by two scholars in the field who provide formative feedback to the author(s) during the review process. We practice signed, as opposed to anonymous or “blind,” peer review. We intend that the journal itself—both in our process and in our digital product—serves as an opportunity to reveal, reflect on, and revise academic publication and classroom practices. As a courtesy to our reviewers, we will not consider simultaneous submissions, but we will do our best to reply to you within three months of the submission deadline. The expected length for finished manuscripts is under 5,000 words. All work should be original and previously unpublished. Essays or presentations posted on a personal blog may be accepted, provided they are substantially revised; please contact us with any questions at admin(a)jitpedagogy.org. *Important Dates* Submission deadline for full manuscripts is *June 30th, 2020*. Please view our submission guidelines <https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/submit/> for information about submitting to the Journal. The editorial team and the JITP editorial collective want to offer any support we can to those facing increased caregiving workloads. We seek to put our pedagogical and collaborative mandate into practice by inviting constructive communication with authors developing their work during this difficult period. If you are unable to meet this deadline for whatever reason given COVID-19–related disruptions, please email the editors at admin(a)jitpedagogy.org to discuss an extension. *Optionally*, if you would like to receive feedback from the editors on an abstract or paper proposal, please submit it to the editors by *May 31st, 2020*. This issue is slated for publication in December 2020.

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Deepfakes CFP
by Carl Ohman 21 May '20

21 May '20

For those interested in Deepfakes and Synthetic media: Forwarding a CFP in special Issue of ‘Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies’ on ‘The Digital Face and Deepfakes on Screen.’ CFP: Convergence Special Issue: “The Digital Face and Deep Fakes on Screen” Deadline for Abstract Submissions: June 30, 2020 Deadline for Full Papers: January 5, 2021 “The Digital Face and Deepfakes on Screen” Special Issue of Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies Guest editors: Lisa Bode (University of Queensland), Dominic Lees (University of the West of England), Dan Golding (Swinburne University of Technology) Expected date of publication: August 2021 The past few decades in high-budget screen production has seen the emergence of digital human faces on screen. The iconic youthful likenesses of dead and aging stars have been painstakingly recreated for advertising and film franchise prequels and sequels. Actors’ faces have been pasted over those of stunt and performer doubles for sequences of breath-taking agility, or integrated with animated animalistic or mechanistic bodies for the purposes of fantasy and science fiction. Such sequences are notable for the time, labour, and technology required to make them, but in late 2017 things escalated: an open access machine learning application was released online, and the means to quickly and easily replace or alter faces in moving images became readily available. Since then, socalled ‘deepfakes’ have proliferated on video sharing sites and social media, causing widespread concern about consequences for persona rights, revenge porn, our perception of social and political reality, and the potential to further undermine the democratic process in an era of ‘fake news’. Both deepfakes and the digital human face more generally, raise multiple pressing concerns, which this special issue seeks to explore. This special issue examines how the technological processes of creating and altering the digital face impact on screen cultures, on the reception of the moving image, and on social interactions through the mobile screen. We seek papers that look at the ethical, philosophical and legal issues around the use of deepfakes in public life, and those that may explore positive cultural and creative possibilities for deepfakes and/or digital faces more generally. The editors welcome contributions from a range of disciplinary perspectives that explore questions such as: • What are the implications of digital faces and/or deepfakes for screen labour markets, screen production, visual effects workers, performers, or celebrity culture? • To what extent are established legal or ethical frameworks challenged by or vital to approaching the creation and circulation of deepfakes? • What older ways of thinking about persona, likeness, the actor/character relation, or illusionism might be useful for understanding digital faces and/or deepfakes? • How do viewers respond to digital faces and/or deepfakes in different contexts? What factors might shape persuasiveness, uncertainty, or suspicion in viewer responses? • What are the gendered, racial, or other social identity issues around digital faces and deepfakes? • Are there distinct geographic, temporal, and cultural differences in the dominant uses and/or discourse surrounding and/or reception of digital faces on screen? Deadline for abstracts: June 30, 2020 Please send a 500-word abstract and a 100-word bio to the guest editors: l.bode(a)uq.edu.au; dominic.lees(a)uwe.ac.uk, dgolding(a)swin.edu.au Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit full contributions by January 5, 2021 Best Carl Öhman, Ph.D Candidate Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford 41 St Giles, Oxford, OX1 3JS, UK

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SoLAR Webinar: Prof Bart Rienties - Learning analytics adoption in Higher Education: Reviewing six years of experience at the Open University UK
by Vitomir Kovanovic 21 May '20

21 May '20

[apologies for multiple copies] Hi all, It is my pleasure to invite you to SoLAR Webinar "Learning analytics adoption in Higher Education: Reviewing six years of experience at Open University UK" presented by Prof. Bart Rienties from the Open University, The United Kingdom. To register, go to https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/learning-analytics-adoption-in-higher-educa… Time and date: Thursday, Jun 11, 2020, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Central European time (11:00 AM-12:00 PM Eastern US time, 8:00 AM-9:00 AM Pacific US time, 4:00 PM-5:00 PM London, UK Time) Location: Zoom (meeting URL provided in the registration email) We are looking forward to seeing you at the webinar! Kind regards, Vitomir Kovanovic, Secretary, Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) https://solaresearch.org/ Learning analytics adoption in Higher Education: Reviewing six years of experience at Open University UK Abstract: In this webinar, Prof Bart Rienties<https://iet.open.ac.uk/people/bart.rienties> will reflect on the process of implementing learning analytics solutions within the UK higher education setting, its implications, and the key lessons learned in the process. The talk will specifically focus on the Open University UK (OU) experience of implementing learning analytics to support its 170k students and 5k staff. Its flagship OU Analyse has been hailed as one of the largest applications of predictive learning analytics at scale for the last five years, making OU one of the leading institutions in learning analytics domain. The talk will reflect on the strong connections between research and practice, educational theory and learning design, scholarship and professional development, and working in multi-disciplinary teams to explain why the OU is at the forefront of implementing learning analytics at scale. At the same time, not all innovations and interventions have worked. During this webinar, Prof Rienties will discuss the lessons learned from implementing learning analytics systems, how learning analytics has been adopted at OU and other UK institutions, and what the implications for higher education might be.

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Video and book launch: Communication and Capitalism: A Critical Theory, by Christian Fuchs
by Christian Fuchs 21 May '20

21 May '20

Christian Fuchs. 2020. Communication and Capitalism: A Critical Theory. London: University of Westminster Press. 406 pages. https://doi.org/10.16997/book45 Available as paperback and as gratis open access e-book Book launch talk "Capitalism & Communication: Critical Theory in the Age of the Internet & Digital Capitalism": https://youtu.be/liiEEumaLfs Going beyond Jürgen Habermas’ theory of communicative action, Christian Fuchs outlines foundation of a critical, dialectical, humanist approach to theorising communication in society and in capitalism. -- "an impressive wide-ranging book”. Prof Michael Hardt, Duke University -- "a comprehensive approach to understanding and transcending the deepening crisis of communicative capitalism" Prof Graham Murdock, Loughborough University German translation: Christian Fuchs. 2020. Kommunikation und Kapitalismus. Eine kritische Theorie. München: UVK/utb. ISBN 978-3-8252-5239-7. 501 Seiten. http://fuchs.uti.at/books/kommunikation-und-kapitalismus/ Table of Contents: 1. Introduction Part I: Foundations of Communicative Materialism 2. Materialism 3. Materialism and Society 4. Communication and Society Part II: Communication in Capitalist Society 5. Capitalism and Communication 6. Communication Technologies: Means of Communication as Means of Production 7. Communication Society 8. Political Communication in the Public Sphere 9. Ideology 10. Nationalism, Communication, Ideology 11. Global Communication and Imperialism Part III: The Materialist Transcendence of Communicative Capitalism 12. Communication Society as Society of the Commons 13. Death and Love: The Metaphysics of Communication 14. Communication and Struggles for Alternatives 15. Conclusion: Advancing a Dialectical, Humanist, Critical Theory of Communication and Society

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Question about Twitter data privacy policy
by gimena del rio riande 20 May '20

20 May '20

Dear air-l members I have a question about the Twitter privacy policy. We have just started this bilingual project on Digital Humanties approaches to Covid-19: https://covid.dh.miami.edu/ Our plan is to analyze, among other, Twitter data, using NLP and sentiment analysis tools, in a way we can contextualize the data and read it as a narrative. In the case of Twitter, we are cleaning and pre-processing the data: no usernames, no urls, only the clean texts. My question is: can this data be offered to people interested in the project as an open and free accessible database from our site? It is not clear to me from the infomation given in the Twitter data privacy policy for developers. Thanks in advance Gimena ### Dra. Gimena del Rio Riande http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8997-5415 Investigadora Adjunta. IIBICRIT, CONICET (Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas y Crítica Textual) - http://www.iibicrit-conicet.gov.ar/ <http://www.iibicrit-conicet.gov.ar/> Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales: http://aahd.net.ar Coordinadora Humanidades Digitales CAICYT Lab: http://hdlab.space/ Twitter: @gimenadelr Marcelo T. de Alvear 1694 (1060). Buenos Aires - Argentina (54)-11-4129-1158 [image: Mailtrack] <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…> Remitente notificado con Mailtrack <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…> 20/05/20 13:37:41

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Mining WordPress (entry-level): suggestions?
by Monica Marra 20 May '20

20 May '20

Dear all, I'm working on some blogs published on WordPress, trying to get anonymized statistics. I'm looking for a *very* entry-level tool that can help me calculate the number of commenters per month along a period of several months, while also categorizing commenters by nickname. Also, I'd love to hear if anyone has done the same for research purposes, how her/his experience was and any kind of suggestions about this. Please contact me in private, later on I'll summarize on the list the suggestions I have received. Hoping to get support, all the best, Monica Marra -- Monica Marra INAF - Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio v. Gobetti 93/3 I-40129 Bologna, Italy Scopus author ID: 7102382905 uff. 3W1

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Upcoming Zoom Talk: “Media Policy in a Time of Crisis" with Victor Pickard
by Eleanor Marchant 20 May '20

20 May '20

Hi Everyone! We're excited to announce that for our next session of the Global Media Policy Seminar Series here at the Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy in Oxford, we will be welcoming Victor Pickard from the Annenberg School for Communication at UPenn to talk about Media Policy in a Time of Crisis: Imagining a Post-Pandemic Future for News and Information”. The talk is scheduled for: 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 in two weeks: https://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk/global-media-policy-seminar-series-victor-pic… 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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WEBCAST TODAY: APAC Insights – What role has the Internet played in helping communities deal with the coronavirus pandemic?
by Joly MacFie 20 May '20

20 May '20

ISOC Asia Pacific's recent webinar on Kids, the Internet & COVID-19 <https://isoc.live/11948/>, was so successful they have decided to make it a regular thing! ISOC Live posted: "On Wednesday May 20 2020 at 06:00 UTC the Internet Society Asia Pacific Bureau hosts the inaugural edition of its APAC Insights series of online conversation sharing views and insights on current issues related to the Internet and its use in the Asia-Paci" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/apacinsights1>On *Wednesday May 20 2020* at *06:00 UTC* the *Internet Society Asia Pacific Bureau <https://www.internetsociety.org/regions/asia-pacific/>* hosts the inaugural edition of its *APAC Insights* series of online conversation sharing views and insights on current issues related to the Internet and its use in the Asia-Pacific. TOPIC: *What role has the Internet played in helping communities deal with the coronavirus pandemic?* <https://www.internetsociety.org/events/apac-insights-1/> SPEAKERS: *Ellen STRICKLAND*, Chief Advisor, International, InternetNZ, New Zealand; *Osama MANZAR*, Founder/Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation, India; *Sumon Ahmed SABIR*, Chief Technology Officer, Fiber@Home Limited, Bangladesh; Moderator: *Rajnesh SINGH*, Regional Vice President, Asia-Pacific, Internet Society. *LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/apacinsights1 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/apacinsights1> *(open captions) *FACEBOOK**: https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live/ <https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/live/> *(open captions) *PARTICIPATE: https://isoc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d9coIXGSToyz1TK6qKtU6Q <https://isoc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d9coIXGSToyz1TK6qKtU6Q>* (closed captions) *REAL TIME TEXT: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC-APAC <https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC-APAC>* *TWITTER: #APACinsights <https://bit.ly/apacinsights>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/12077/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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COVID-19 Seminar #5: Dr Frederick Keck, CNRS-Collège de France-EHESS
by Thao Phan 19 May '20

19 May '20

*COVID-19 Seminar #5: Dr Frederick Keck, CNRS-Collège de France-EHESS* https://frederickkeck-seminar.eventbrite.com.au Please join us for seminar #5 in the COVID-19 seminar series, co-hosted by the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship & Globalisation (ADI) <https://www.deakin.edu.au/adi> and the Science and Society Network (SSN) <https://scienceandsocietynetwork.deakin.edu.au/>. *Date/time:* Tuesday 26th May, 2:30pm - 4pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time, GMT+10) *Title:* Flying Reservoirs: Virus hunters, birdwatchers and bat carers in Chinese sentinel posts *Abstract:* I will present the Covid-19 crisis through the conceptual grid I have built in my book, Avian Reservoirs, which just came out with Duke UP. Starting from speculations on the bat origins of the new coronavirus, I will ask questions about sentinels, simulations and stockpiling as techniques of preparedness for pandemics. I will then present the genealogy of pandemic preparedness in Hong Kong to ask the question : why were Hong Kong « virus hunters » more prepared « ontologically » for this pandemic ? How do techniques of anticipation of future epidemics depend on ontological relations between humans and non-human beings ? This will lead me to question Foucault’s definition of sovereign power as « make die and let live » through an ethnographic analysis of culling and releasing animals. The question I will ask then is : how are relations between humans and birds in Hong Kong forged through pandemic preparedness transformed when pandemic preparedness involves relations between humans and bats ? *About the speaker:* Frédéric Keck is the head of the Laboratory for Social Anthropology (CNRS-Collège de France-EHESS) funded by Claude Lévi-Strauss in 1960. After studying philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley, he has been researching the history of social anthropology and contemporary biopolitical questions raised by avian influenza. He was the head of the research department of the musée du quai Branly between 2014 and 2018. *Watch the seminar:* Seminar will be available to stream on YouTube live. Access using the live link: https://youtu.be/xs9kAOe957Y Date/time: Tuesday 26th May, 2:30pm - 4pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time, GMT+10) To send questions/participate in the YouTube Live 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 <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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PLEASE TAKE OUR SURVEY: Rethinking Education for 2050 and Beyond
by Dr. Patrick Blessinger 19 May '20

19 May '20

Dear Colleagues, Let us know what you think; please take our survey at and share with your colleagues: https://www.hetl.org/rethinking-education-for-2050-and-beyond/ Regards, -- Dr. Patrick Blessinger <http://www.patrickblessinger.com/> Follow my Facebook Page <https://www.facebook.com/drblessinger/> Contributing Writer, University World News <http://www.universityworldnews.com/search.php?query=blessinger&type=all&mod…> Director and Chief Scientist, HETL Association <https://www.hetl.org/> Editor, Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education <http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=jar…> Editor, Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning <https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/series-detail/Innovations-in-Higher-E…>

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