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CFP Viral Times: HIV and COVID-19 (Culture, Health and Sexuality)
by Jaime García Iglesias 14 May '20

14 May '20

Viral Times: Rethinking COVID-19 and HIV Special Issue of Culture, Health, and Sexuality 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. Queries should be directed to jaime.garciaiglesias(a)manchester.ac.uk and maurice.nagington(a)manchester.ac.uk Deadline for submitting abstracts: June 16 (*We encourage people to submit abstracts, but we also accept full papers) Deadline for full papers: October 16 More information: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/viral-times/?utm_source=T… -- Jaime Garcia-Iglesias The University of Manchester Twitter ¦ Academia ¦ UoM

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WEBCASTS TODAY: Global Encryption Coalition webinar series – Health, Encryption & COVID-19
by Joly MacFie 14 May '20

14 May '20

We are already one down and four to go on this, as the APAC session was a couple of hours back. Via our new twitch experiment I made *highlights of the closing remarks* <https://www.twitch.tv/collections/0TFHtiPWDhbrIw>. ISOC Live posted: "Today, Thursday 14 May 2020, the Internet Society, Center for Democracy and Technology, and Global Partners Digital are hosting a free webinar series 'Health, Encryption & #COVID19: Keeping people and countries safer online' to celebrate the launch o" [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/globalencryption> Today,* Thursday 14 May 2020*, the *Internet Society <https://internetsociety.org/>*, *Center for Democracy and Technology <https://cdt.org/>*, and *Global Partners Digital <https://www.gp-digital.org/>* are hosting a free webinar series '*Health, Encryption & #COVID19: Keeping people and countries safer online <https://www.internetsociety.org/events/health-encryption-covid-19/>*' to celebrate the launch of the *Global Encryption Coalition*. Across the day this global series of 5 webinars will explore how encryption is a critical tool helping people and countries navigate the global COVID-19 health crisis. Participation will be via zoom plus a live webcast. Closed captions will be available on zoom, open captions on the webcast. *LIVESTREAM: http://livestream.com/internetsociety/globalencryption <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/globalencryption>* *FACEBOOK SIMULCAST: https://www.facebook.com/pg/InternetSociety/videos/ <https://www.facebook.com/pg/InternetSociety/videos/>* *SCHEDULE: https://www.internetsociety.org/events/health-encryption-covid-19/ <https://www.internetsociety.org/events/health-encryption-covid-19/>* *PARTICIPATE* *6:00-07:00 UTC - #apac* *Encryption after COVID-19: What’s Coming Up in Asia-Pacific?* *https://isoc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LJS9_8fGSnK-ffPkL9p_rQ* <https://isoc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LJS9_8fGSnK-ffPkL9p_rQ> *12:30-14:00 UTC - #europe* *Online Trust and COVID-19: What’s Next for Encryption in Europe?* *https://isoc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-LYzE71RR7uaFb10JZhuDQ* <https://isoc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-LYzE71RR7uaFb10JZhuDQ> *16:00-17:30 UTC - #5eyes* *Five-Eyes, Encryption & COVID-19: What’s Changed and What’s Next?* *https://isoc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VqdvHc6eTemspgKFGjE0aA* <https://isoc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VqdvHc6eTemspgKFGjE0aA> *18:00-19:15 UTC - #canada* *Government Backdoor Access Proposals that Threaten Canadian Health and Security Online* *https://isoc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YFtYCieKStyhFJUunaHkIA* <https://isoc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YFtYCieKStyhFJUunaHkIA> *21:00-22:45 UTC - #lac* *Cifrado y COVID-19 en ALC: lecciones para la protección de datos, la confianza en la economía digital y la protección de la infraestructura de Internet* *https://isoc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUsfuiqpjwvH9wm2Cu4oh1ynVnZeNNTji5f* <https://isoc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUsfuiqpjwvH9wm2Cu4oh1ynVnZeNNTji5f> *English + Spanish. You will have to select language within zoom. *REAL TIME TEXT: http://streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC <http://streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC> (English, all sessions)* *http://streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC-ES <http://streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-ISOC-ES> (Spanish, LAC session only)* *TWITTER: #GlobalEncryption <https://bit.ly/globalencryption> (+ #regions noted above)* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/12062/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Special issue on Social Media Strategy in Sustainable Business
by Gohar F. Khan 13 May '20

13 May '20

Dear colleagues, I am co-guest editing the following special issue and would like to invite you to submit your work to it if it is relevant to its theme. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Social_Media_Str… *Deadline for manuscript submissions*: 15 August 2020. Regards, Gohar -- Dr. Gohar Khan | Senior Lecturer of Digital Business | Undergraduate and Graduate Convenor for Digital Business | School of Management & Marketing | Faculty of Management | University of Waikato Private Bag 3105 | Hamilton 3240 | New Zealand | +64 7 838 4233 | gohar.khan(a)waikato.ac.nz | office: MSB.2.32D / Web: gfkhan.wordpress.com Check out my books on social media analytics and digital marketing analytics

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Digital Psychology Training Scholarship (8-Weeks Online)
by Brian 13 May '20

13 May '20

Hello, Announcing my 5th scholarship program for candidates who are helping address the current pandemic with online behavioral science. We are accepting applications till May 19th. If this is for you, we look forward to your application. If you know someone who may benefit, I'm grateful if you can share this with them. Details below. Thanks. Brian ------------------------------ Win a scholarship to address COVID-19 with the science of digital psychology What we’re giving away We’re giving away a handful of scholarships for our upcoming 8-week online training course on digital psychology. What the course covers This online course will teach you how to use psychology to build more effective digital health behavior change interventions. In a nutshell, the workshop boils down decades of digital psychology science into a simple system that is easy to learn and apply. The first course covers classic behavioral science and the behavioral design process, while the second course focuses on the neuroscience of emotion/motivation. Who qualifies for our scholarships These scholarships are intended to help people pursuing activities that blend digital interventions with health behavior change that contribute to the current pandemic response. Our program is open to students, academics, innovators, volunteers, anyone working in health promotion, its delivery, or the broader health sector. Why we’re giving them away for free The current pandemic has illuminated the need for us to unite and make behavioral changes based on science. Our training system grew out of research on how to use technology to promote public health, and now’s the time to make an impact. We realize that many organizations and students who are doing good work don’t always have the budget required to attend our training. For this reason, we’re giving away scholarships for change agents to better use digital media and technology to help the world overcome COVID-19 & future pandemics. How to apply Complete the online application form by 19 May to be eligible for the upcoming course. Learn more: https://www.alterspark.com/enrollment/scholarships <http://www.alterspark.com/scholarship> ------------------------------ ================== Brian Cugelman, PhD AlterSpark https://www.alterspark.com <https://www.alterspark.com/> Cell: +1 (415) 510-0767 Biz: +1 (888) 977-2055 brian(a)alterspark.com http://linkedin.com/in/cugelman http://twitter.com/cugelman

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WEBCAST TODAY: US Senate: The State of Broadband Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
by Joly MacFie 13 May '20

13 May '20

This was this morning. I have only corrected the first 30 mins of the transcript thus far. Note that we are now testing out simulcasting on twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive/ ISOC Live posted: "Today, Wednesday May 13 2020, at 10 am EDT the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation convened a hearing titled, “The State of Broadband Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic”. The hearing examined the ongoing initiatives led by the Federal Commun" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/senatecovid/>Today, *Wednesday May 13 2020*, at *10 am EDT* the *Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation <https://www.commerce.senate.gov/>* convened a hearing titled, “*The State of Broadband Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic <https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2020/5/the-state-of-broadband-amid-the-covi…>*”. The hearing examined the ongoing initiatives led by the Federal Communications Commission to maintain and expand high-speed and reliable broadband connections to all Americans during this national public health emergency. The hearing also examine the impact of funds provided through the *CARES Act <https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/3548/text?q=produc…> *to support broadband initiatives at the federal, state, and local levels, and legislative proposals focused on addressing the digital divide during the COVID-19 outbreak. Witnesses: *Steven Berry*, President / CEO, Competitive Carriers Association; *Shirley Bloomfield*, CEO, NTCA - The Rural Broadband Association; *Gene Kimmelman*, Senior Advisor, Public Knowledge; and *Jonathan Spalter*, President / CEO, USTelecom - The Broadband Association. *LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/senatecovid/ <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/senatecovid/>* *TRANSCRIPT: https://otter.ai/s/z4CQHgQ_T6qvNvpWkBZBjw <https://otter.ai/s/z4CQHgQ_T6qvNvpWkBZBjw> (raw AI)* *TWITTER: @SenateCommerce + broadband <https://bit.ly/3bwnZiY>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/12055/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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CFP deadline extended - Annual GigaNet Symposium, November 2, 2020 (Katowice, Poland)
by Carmi, Elinor 12 May '20

12 May '20

Hi everyone, I hope everyone is keeping safe and well. GigaNet are closely monitoring the evolving COVID-19 situation and hope that the physical meeting in Katowice can go ahead as planned. Should that change due to a prolongation of the pandemic restrictions, we will make arrangements to move the symposium online. However, we decided to extend the deadline for the submissions of abstracts to 22nd of May. As of now, GigaNet 2020 is planned to be held alongside the United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Katowice, Poland. We expect our symposium to take place on “Day 0” of the IGF, which is Monday, 2 November. Papers on any Internet/data governance-related topic are welcome. Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. There will be the possibility of a focused subset of accepted papers to be fast-tracked for publication in a relevant journal. GigaNet encourages emerging scholars to submit their work to the symposium. Proposals should be submitted in English. Participation in the GigaNet symposium is free of charge. For submission, the extended abstract must be uploaded to the Easychair website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=giganet2020) by 22 May 2020. Important dates: • NEW extended abstracts submission: 22 May • Notification to authors of acceptances/rejections: 15 June • Accepted authors confirm attendance: 10 July • Full papers due: 15 September • GigaNet Symposium: 2 November ________________________________ GigaNet is an international association of academic researchers founded in 2006 to support multidisciplinary research on Internet governance. Its membership includes researchers from all over the world who are contributing to local, national, regional, and international debates on Internet governance. More information on GigaNet’s organizational structures and activities can be found on its website at https://www.giga-net.org<https://www.giga-net.org/>. Stay healthy and take care! All the best, Dr. Elinor Carmi, Postdoc Research Associate - Digital Media & Society, Department of Communication and Media, Faculty of the Humanities and Social Sciences, School of the Arts, Liverpool University, UK. https://elinorcarmi.com<https://elinorcarmi.com/> Twitter: @Elinor_Carmi

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Assistant Professor in Responsible and Ethical AI in Amsterdam
by Blanke, Tobias 12 May '20

12 May '20

My new research group at the University of Amsterdam, the Institute of Language, Logic and Computation, is looking for a new Assistant Professor in Responsible and Ethical AI: https://www.uva.nl/shared-content/uva/en/vacancies/2020/05/20-275-assistant…. The position is linked to the new university-wide research priority area in Humane AI (https://humane-ai.nl/) and supposed to develop research and teaching in the area. All best Tobias Blanke University Professor AI and Humanities Amsterdam

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Online Webinar - Memes: the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism - Friday 15th May, 3-7pm
by Gerbaudo, Paolo 12 May '20

12 May '20

Dear Colleagues, You are all invited to attend our online conference on Memes and the cultural logic of late capitalism. We will have two panels with speakers discussing the nexus between memes and politics. To participate you need to book your ticket via Eventbrite. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-conference-memes-the-cultural-logic-o… Best, Paolo Online Conference 'Memes: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism?' hosted by the Centre for Digital Culture, King’s College London - Friday 15th May, 3-7pm Meme has become a by-word of contemporary digital culture. This term has been used to described simplified contents such as captioned macro pictures, short-videos, recurring phrases and all sorts of internet fads that we find on social media. With their penchant for humour and sarcasm, their remixability, irony and recursivity, memes are an interesting object of study because they seem to embody much of what is unique about digital culture vis-a-vis pre-digital cultures. Furthermore, they have become the privileged means through which all sorts of new online contents travel, from extremist propaganda, to social and political issue formation, to celebrity fandom and trolling. What does the prominence of internet memes tell us about our society at a time of profound crises of capitalism? What do some of memes’ recurring characters such as the Wojaks, Virgin vs. Chad and all sorts of variations on Spongebob and BoJack Horseman, tell us about the emerging fears and preoccupations of our society? Are memes simply a neutral medium that can fit any content, or do they carry their own bias and specificities? And if so what is the dominant cultural spirit of memes? Are they the reflection of an hyper-reflective society that cannot take itself seriously and which is caught into self-introspection and presentism? Or do they offer hope of constructive self-criticism and potentials for social and political imagination? This online conference will bring together scholars working on memes and their cultural, economic, political implications. Panel 1: Meme Magic is Real! Studying the politics of online subcultures through their memetic activity with Marc Tuters (University of Amsterdam), Daniël de Zeeuw (University of Amsterdam), Stijn Peeters (University of Amsterdam), Tom Willaert (VUB/Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Sal Hagen (University of Amsterdam) and Emillie de Keulenaar (University of Amsterdam & Utrecht University) Panel 2: Politics of memes with An Xiao Mina (Harvard University), Alessandro Lolli, Anastasia Denisova (University of Westminster) and Philip Seargean (Open University) Book your place and you will be sent an access link to attend the conference online along with the event programme including abstracts, speaker bios and panel details 2 days prior. Dr Paolo Gerbaudo, Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society, Department of Digital Humanities Director of the Centre for Digital Culture King's College London, Room S3.10, Strand Building, 3rd Floor, Strand London WC2, England Phone: +44 (0)20 78481576

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COVID-19 Seminar #4: Dr Monique Mann, Deakin University
by Thao Phan 12 May '20

12 May '20

*COVID-19 Seminar #4: Dr Monique Mann, Deakin University* https://moniquemann-seminar.eventbrite.com.au/ Please join us for the first seminar 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 19th May, 10am - 11:30am (Australian Eastern Standard Time, GMT+10) *Title:* COVID-Up: Trust and Transparency in Contact Tracing Applications? *Abstract:* On Sunday the 26th of April 2020, the Australian Government released a contact tracing application “COVIDSafe” to assist with the response to the global pandemic. The app was marketed as a way to speed up the processes of contacting people exposed to the coronavirus to “support and protect you.” The Australian Government is not alone in seeking such technological “solutions” to the global pandemic, and this represents but one significant surveillance development from the COVID pandemic. A series of privacy and civil liberties concerns quickly emerged, including: its intersection with Australia’s anti-encryption laws, the use of Amazon AWS and potential for extraterritorial data access via the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act, the app becoming mandatory, or the data being used for “national security” purposes. An open letter signed by circa 80 technical and academic experts called for the source code and design specifications to be released to enable greater transparency and trust, sentiments shared by academics quick to publish on the topic (see Greenleaf & Kemp, 2020). However, despite initial assurances to release the source code and design specifications of the “Covid Safe” app, this has not occurred. This talk takes these developments and expands critique on the transparency ideal which has been termed a “fallacy” (Edwards & Veale, 2017), and only meaningful if there is a critical audience to be transparent to (Kemper & Kolkman, 2019). Transparency does not constitute accountability in and of itself (Vedder & Naudts, 2017). A separate but related critique inspired by science, technology and society (STS) studies situates algorithms and applications in context (see Ananny, 2016; Crawford, 2016). Indeed, it has been argued that a focus on transparency reinforces a form of techno-determinist “fetishism” that “manifests in the pleasurable pursuit of opening the black box, discovering the code hidden inside, exploring its beauty and flaws, and explicating its intricacies” (Monahan, 2018, p. 2). In turn, this eschews understanding of algorithms and applications as embedded within institutions that have their own politics and power plays too. Related arguments have been presented by Ananny and Crawford (2018) who advance ten failings of transparency including (but not limited to) its disconnection from power and advancing neoliberal modes of agency. In connecting these developments with the critical literature on transparency, this talk advocates for a need to consider broader contexts of surveillance and to “decenter technology” (Peña Gangadharan, & Niklas, 2019) both in terms of techno-solutionist responses to the COVID pandemic, and our critique of them. References Ananny, M. (2016). Towards an ethics of algorithms: Convening, observation, probability and timeliness. Science, Technology and Human Values, 41(1), 93-117. Ananny, M. & Crawford, K. (2018). Seeing without knowing: Limitations of the transparency ideal and its application to algorithmic accountability. New Media and Society, 20(3), 973-989. Crawford, K. (2016). Can an algorithm be agonistic? Ten scenes from life in calculated publics. Science, Technology and Human Values, 41(1), 77-92. Greenleaf, G., & Kemp, K. (2020). Austrlia’s ‘COVIDSafe App’: An experiment in surveillance, trust and law. Work-in-Progress Draft 30 April 2020. Available at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3589317 Kemper, J. & Kolkman, D. (2019). Transparent to whom? No algorithmic accountability without a critical audience. Information Communication and Society, 22(14), 2081-2096. Monahan, T. (2018). Editorial: Algorithmic Fetishism. Surveillance and Society, 16(1), 1-5. Peña Gangadharan, S., & Niklas, J. (2019). Decentering Technology in Discourse in Discrimination. Information, Communication and Society, 22(7), 882-899. Vedder, A., & Naudts, L. (2017). Accountability for the use of algorithms in a big data environment. International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, 31(2), 206–224. *About the speaker:* Dr Monique Mann is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology and member of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University. Mann's research expertise concerns three main interrelated lines of inquiry: (1) new technology for policing and surveillance, (2) human rights and social justice, and (3) governance and regulation. Mann has contributed to advancing Australia’s national research agenda in these areas through her activities not only as an academic and author, but also as an advocate, media commentator, and policy advisor. She is author of ‘Politicising and Policing Organised Crime‘ (Routledge, 2020), ‘Biometrics, Crime and Security‘ (Routledge, 2018), and editor of ‘Good Data‘ (Institute of Network Cultures, 2019). *Watch the seminar:* Seminar will be available to stream on YouTube live. Access using the live link: https://youtu.be/QFWCQhtO2Is <https://youtu.be/QFWCQhtO2Is> Date/time: Tuesday 19th May, 10am - 11:30am (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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Social Media and Methods
by Ostertag, Stephen F 11 May '20

11 May '20

Hello everyone. Can anyone suggest a few solid readings on social media and methods? Something that touches on sampling, epistemologies, analysis and such. Thank you, Stephen Ostertag Stephen F. Ostertag, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Sociology Department of Sociology Tulane University New Orleans, LA 70118

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