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WEBCAST TODAY: The State of the Digital World Today / Roadmap for Digital Cooperation Launch
by Joly MacFie 11 Jun '20

11 Jun '20

It doesn't get much more High Level than this! ISOC Live posted: "On Thursday 11 June 2020 from 13:30-15:00 EDT (17:30-19:00 UTC) at an online event 'The State of the Digital World Today' United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres will launch his report 'Roadmap for Digital Cooperation'. The Secretary-General’s R" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/sgreport>On *Thursday 11 June 2020* from *13:30-15:00 EDT* (17:30-19:00 UTC) at an online event '*The State of the Digital World Today <https://www.internetsociety.org/events/un/launch-of-the-secretary-generals-…>*' United Nations *Secretary-General António Guterres <https://www.un.org/sg/en>* will launch his report '*Roadmap for Digital Cooperation*'. The Secretary-General’s Roadmap is a response to the *findings <http://www.un.org/en/pdfs/HLP%20on%20Digital%20Cooperation%20Report%20Execu…>* of the *High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation <https://www.un.org/en/digital-cooperation-panel/>*, which conducted two years worth of multi-stakeholder consultation and deliberation on key issues such as digital connectivity, digital inclusion, human rights, artificial intelligence, and trust and security. *SPEAKERS* *António Guterres*, Secretary-General of the United Nations *Simonetta Sommaruga*, President, Switzerland *Julius Maada Bio*, President, Sierra Leone *Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum*, Crown Prince of Dubai *Klaus Schwab*, Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum *Tim Berners-Lee*, Co-Founder, Web Foundation *Ajay Banga*, CEO, MasterCard *Nick Read*, CEO, Vodafone Group *Fekitamoeloa Katoa ‘Utolkamanu*, High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked - Developing Countries, and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS) *Baroness Joanna Shields*, CEO, BenevolentAI *Andrew Sullivan*, President and CEO, Internet Society *LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety/sgreport <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/sgreport>* *TWITTER #digitalcooperation <http://bit.ly/digitalcooperation> * *UN SIMULCASTS* *http://webtv.un.org <http://webtv.un.org>* *http://youtube.com/unitednations <http://youtube.com/unitednations>* *http://facebook.com/UNWebTV <http://facebook.com/UNWebTV>* *http://twitter.com/UNWebTV <http://twitter.com/UNWebTV>* *ISOC SIMULCASTS* *https://youtu.be/COlax2qhu2A <https://youtu.be/COlax2qhu2A>* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/videos <https://www.facebook.com/InternetSociety/videos>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/12219/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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OSNEM Special Issue: Online/Mobile Social Networking at the time of COVID-19 - Deadline July 31st
by Andrea Passarella 11 Jun '20

11 Jun '20

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS Elsevier Online Social Networks and Media Journal (OSNEM) Special issue on Online/Mobile Social Networking at the time of COVID-19 Submission Deadline: July 31st, 2020 http://www.journals.elsevier.com/online-social-networks-and-media/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The outbreak of COVID-19 is revolutionising our daily habits and individual/social behaviour, with many physical activities being "migrated" to the online world. On the other hand, we are relying more and more on online services to track and fight the diffusion of the new virus. While these phenomena are a consequence of an emergency situation, it is very likely that such changes will have a significant long-term impact. Online and Mobile Social Networks are a particularly intriguing environment in this framework. The OSNEM usage has changed dramatically since the emergence of the pandemic. Moreover, OSNEM can be used to shed light, through big data analysis, on novel individual and social behaviours of people. Last but not least, OSNEM are increasingly used to track the pandemic, via Online and Mobile Social Platforms helping to track physical contacts between people. As the role of OSNEM is becoming ever more important, challenges and threats to privacy, trust in information, fake news, malicious behaviour are posing even more serious threats. This special issue seeks high-quality scientific articles (both theoretical and experimental) on the use of OSNEM at the time of COVID-19, to either characterise the human behaviour via large-scale OSNEM data analysis, or using OSNEM to fight the pandemic. Papers describing the process used to collect and use large-scale datasets from OSNEM platforms are welcome, provided datasets are made available to the research community. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Characterisation of OSNEM usage at the time of COVID-19 via OSNEM big data analysis - Models of individual and social behaviour through OSNEM big data during the pandemic - Characterisation of social network structures during pandemic via OSNEM large-scale data - Opinion formation, information diffusion and polarization related to COVID-19 - Tracking of COVID-19 diffusion through Online Social Networks analysis - Mobile Social Networking applications and services to fight the COVID-19 diffusion - COVID-19 e-health services based on OSNEM - Privacy issues in the use of Online and Mobile Social Networks to fight COVID-19 - Tools to detect and counteract disinformation and malicious behaviours related the COVID-19 phenomena - Tools to assess and verify trustworthiness of COVID-19 related information and accounts - OSNEM data-driven approaches to study COVID-19 related phenomena - Multidisciplinary applications of OSNEM (economics, medicine, society, politics, homeland security, etc.) to fight COVID-19 - COVID-19 publicly available OSNEM datasets: collection, usage and sharing Online Social Networks and Media is a multidisciplinary journal for the wide community of computer and network scientists working on developing OSNEM platforms and services and using OSNEM as a big data source to mine, learn and model the (online) human behaviour. Manuscripts only based on questionnaires, even focused on the reported use of social media, are outside the scope of the journal. On the other hand, the journal welcomes papers which present analyses based on big data mined from social networks/media. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Schedule Manuscript submission deadline: July 31st, 2020 First notification: September 30th, 2020 Submission of revised paper: October 31st, 2020 Notification of acceptance: November 30th, 2020 Guest Editors Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Instructions for submission Manuscripts must not have been previously published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. Papers previously published in conference proceedings are eligible for submission if the submitted manuscript is a substantial revision and extension of the conference version. In this case, authors should indicate the previous publication(s) in the cover letter and are also required to submit their published conference article(s) and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. The submission website for this journal is located at https://www.editorialmanager.com/osnem/default.aspx. Please select "VSI:COVID-19" when you reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified, for consideration by the special issue, the authors should indicate in the cover letter that the manuscript has been submitted for the special issue on “Online/Mobile Social Networking at the time of COVID-19”. Manuscripts can be submitted continuously until the deadline. Once a paper is submitted, the review process will start immediately. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (in the first issue available as soon as the paper is accepted). All accepted papers will be listed together in an online virtual special issue published in the journal website. For further information, please contact the guest editors at osnem at iit.cnr.it

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AI Ethics: Santa Clara Principles for Content Moderation (Part 1)
by Abhishek Gupta 11 Jun '20

11 Jun '20

Hi everyone, The Montreal AI Ethics Institute is hosting this session to share our insights with the *Santa Clara Principles* for their work on transparency and accountability in content moderation drawing from our diverse perspectives and experience and having done so before for various other public consultations. *Date*: June 17, 2020 *Time*: 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM *Venue*: Details to join the Zoom session online will be sent once you register We hope that you will join us at the session, the tickets can be reserved from the following link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ai-ethics-santa-clara-principles-for-content-mo… Other upcoming events can be found here: https://montrealethics.ai/meetup Looking forward to seeing you at the session, thanks! Abhishek

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CfP: Borders, bordering and sovereignty in digital space // Online symposium // 2nd+3rd Sept
by Morris,CJ (pgr) 11 Jun '20

11 Jun '20

Dear all, Please find a CfP for an online symposium/workshop Chenchen Zhang and I are organising. The symposium builds on the three panels we had planned for the now postponed RGS conference and includes many of the original participants. The theme is broad, and we encourage interdisciplinary contributions from around the world. General details: * Date: September 2nd/3rd * CfP Deadline: June 30th * Flexible time slots for flexible time zones, though centred around GMT day * Pre-recorded videos acceptable * Ideally less intense and more time to talk, so two-day schedule * Open to public viewing * Main aim is to engage in a conversation on these topics * Additional aim is a special issue on the conference theme * Hosted by Dr Chenchen Zhang and Dr Carwyn Morris Please submit your abstract through this Google Form: https://forms.gle/Pgs1vh7iJY8EaX7u8 (if you have issues, please email c.j.morris(a)lse.ac.uk<mailto:c.j.morris@lse.ac.uk>) CFP: National borders continue to operate in the digital space despite predictions otherwise. Scholars have argued that the global communication space and the nation state are both oppositional and co-constituting forces in internet governance. Digital (cyber) borders are produced through, for instance, regulatory systems, jurisdictional assertions, censorship regimes, and discourses of digital sovereignty and digital security. While governments draw on concepts of sovereignty and national security to assert control over a digital space that seems essentially borderless, civil society actors have also sought to put forward ideas of digital sovereignty along the lines of freedom and self-determination. This online workshop aims to address theoretical and empirical questions regarding processes of (de)bordering, (de)territorialization and sovereignty in digital space. How are the concepts of sovereignty, territory, and borders reproduced and transformed in the context of the digital? What are the emerging patterns of power and contestation with regard to the control over data and information flows? How is the national border - digital or physical - being (re)produced or contested in digital space? How do digital borders, territory and sovereignty affect contentious politics? And how are spatial inequalities in knowledge production impacting our understanding of evolving socio-spatial relations? We especially welcome contributions that engage with critical perspectives on the concepts of sovereignty, territory, and borders such as those focused on performance, discourse/practice, and governmentality. Papers might explore the following themes: * The production of digital territories and borders through legal, technological, and other means * Firewalls, censorship regimes, internet disruptions * The territorialization of services, infrastructure and populations * Concepts and discourses of digital, cyber and data sovereignty * The geopolitics of data and internet control * Digital borders and data protection law * How borders and practices of territorialization in digital space are contested * The impact of territorialization and bordering on populations * Conceptual and theoretical contributions * Contributions beyond methodological nationalism Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words through the Google Form by the end of June 30th: https://forms.gle/Pgs1vh7iJY8EaX7u8 We encourage submissions by early career researchers and PhDs near completion (Chenchen and Carwyn tick those boxes) wherever in the world they are based. We also encourage people to submit in advance of the deadline so that we do not have a huge number of submissions all coming on one day. Best, Chenchen and Carwyn __ Carwyn Morris PhD Human Geography and Urban Studies Department of Geography and Environment London School of Economics Tweeting @carwyn<https://twitter.com/carwyn> Viva passed and looking for a job!

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++just out++ VideoVortex Reader 3: Inside the YouTube Decade
by Geert Lovink 11 Jun '20

11 Jun '20

Video Vortex Reader III: Inside the YouTube Decade Edited by Geert Lovink and Andreas Treske INC Reader #14 Download it here, as e-pub, pdf or print-on-demand (via Lulu): https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/video-vortex-reader-iii-inside… <https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/video-vortex-reader-iii-inside…> What is online video today, fifteen years into its exponential growth? What started with amateur work of YouTube prosumers has spread to virtually all communication apps: an explosion in the culture of mobile sound and vision. Now, in the age of the smart phone, video accompanies, informs, moves, and distracts us. Are you addicted yet? Look into that tiny camera, talk, move the phone, show us around — prove to others that you exist! Founded in 2007, Video Vortex is a lively network of artists, activists, coders, curators, critics, and researchers linked by the exchange of ideas, materials, and discussions both online and offline. Video Vortex has produced two anthologies, a website, a mailing list, 12 international conferences, several art exhibitions, and more to come as the internet and video continue to merge and miniaturize. The first Video Vortex reader came out in 2008, followed by a second in 2011. This third anthology covers the turbulent period from Video Vortex #7 (2013) in Yogyakarta, across the meetings that followed in Zagreb, Lüneburg, Istanbul, Kochi, and finally Malta in 2019, where the foundations for this publication where laid before its production began in the midst of the corona crisis. The contributions herein respond to a broad range of emerging and urgent topics, from bias in YouTube’s algorithms, to the use of video in messaging, image theory, the rise of deepfakes, a reconsideration of the history of video art, a reflection on the continuing role and influence of music video, indy servers, synthetic intimacies, love and sadness, artist videos, online video theory in the age of platform capitalism, video as online activism, and the rise of streaming. Click, browse, swipe, like, share, save, and enjoy! Contributors: Annie Abrahams, Ina Blom, Natalie Bookchin, Pablo deSoto, Ben Grosser, Adnan Hadzi, Judit Kis, Patricia G. Lange, Hang Li, Patrick Lichty, Geert Lovink, Gabriel Menotti, Sabine Niederer, Dan Oki, Aras Ozgun, Daniel Pinheiro, Rahee Punyashloka, Oliver Lenore Schultz, Peter Snowdon, Andreas Treske, Colette Tron, Jack Wilson, Dino Ge Zhang. Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2020

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++just out++ VideoVortex Reader 3: Inside the YouTube Decade
by Geert Lovink 11 Jun '20

11 Jun '20

Video Vortex Reader III: Inside the YouTube Decade Edited by Geert Lovink and Andreas Treske INC Reader #14 Download it here, as e-pub, pdf or print-on-demand (via Lulu): https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/video-vortex-reader-iii-inside… <https://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/video-vortex-reader-iii-inside…> What is online video today, fifteen years into its exponential growth? What started with amateur work of YouTube prosumers has spread to virtually all communication apps: an explosion in the culture of mobile sound and vision. Now, in the age of the smart phone, video accompanies, informs, moves, and distracts us. Are you addicted yet? Look into that tiny camera, talk, move the phone, show us around — prove to others that you exist! Founded in 2007, Video Vortex is a lively network of artists, activists, coders, curators, critics, and researchers linked by the exchange of ideas, materials, and discussions both online and offline. Video Vortex has produced two anthologies, a website, a mailing list, 12 international conferences, several art exhibitions, and more to come as the internet and video continue to merge and miniaturize. The first Video Vortex reader came out in 2008, followed by a second in 2011. This third anthology covers the turbulent period from Video Vortex #7 (2013) in Yogyakarta, across the meetings that followed in Zagreb, Lüneburg, Istanbul, Kochi, and finally Malta in 2019, where the foundations for this publication where laid before its production began in the midst of the corona crisis. The contributions herein respond to a broad range of emerging and urgent topics, from bias in YouTube’s algorithms, to the use of video in messaging, image theory, the rise of deepfakes, a reconsideration of the history of video art, a reflection on the continuing role and influence of music video, indy servers, synthetic intimacies, love and sadness, artist videos, online video theory in the age of platform capitalism, video as online activism, and the rise of streaming. Click, browse, swipe, like, share, save, and enjoy! Contributors: Annie Abrahams, Ina Blom, Natalie Bookchin, Pablo deSoto, Ben Grosser, Adnan Hadzi, Judit Kis, Patricia G. Lange, Hang Li, Patrick Lichty, Geert Lovink, Gabriel Menotti, Sabine Niederer, Dan Oki, Aras Ozgun, Daniel Pinheiro, Rahee Punyashloka, Oliver Lenore Schultz, Peter Snowdon, Andreas Treske, Colette Tron, Jack Wilson, Dino Ge Zhang. Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2020

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Re-launching King's College London's DDH PhD Conference - 26th June 3pm
by Cobby Avaria, Roy 10 Jun '20

10 Jun '20

Dear all, As you might know, the yearly King's College London Department of Digital Humanities PhD Conference was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. We have decided to re-launch it, online. Our original theme, 2020 Loathing, already included reflections on digital technologies that have only intensified with the pandemic and the measures taken to stop its spread, such as confinement. The discussion will be structured through two panels, one led by Dr Jennifer Pybus and another one led by Dr Fernanda Bruno. The conference will take place on Friday 26th June, at 3pm (BST). You can register here<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2020-loathing-digital-tensions-fragmentation…>. We hope to see you there and to have an afternoon of insightful reflections in these extraordinary circumstances. Please, extend the invitation to your wider network. Visit our website for more information: http://newperspectivesdh.com/ Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2020-loathing-digital-tensions-fragmentation… Best wishes, The Conference Team Cris, Linan and Roy

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WEBCAST TODAY: EuroDIG2020 Pre07 - Internet successes and failures to support a world living under COVID19 lockdown
by Joly MacFie 10 Jun '20

10 Jun '20

This is like a Dynamic Coalition supergroup! ISOC Live posted: "On Wednesday 10 June 2020 at 16:30-18:00 UTC the Dynamic Coalition on the Internet of Things (DC IoT) and the Dynamic Coalition on Core Internet Values (DC CIV) will hold a joint pre-EuroDIG roundtable 'Internet successes and failures to support a world l" [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/pre07>On *Wednesday 10 June 2020* at *16:30-18:00 UTC* the *Dynamic Coalition on the Internet of Things* <https://www.iot-dynamic-coalition.org/> (DC IoT) and the *Dynamic Coalition on Core Internet Values <https://www.coreinternetvalues.org/>* (DC CIV) will hold a joint pre-*EuroDIG <https://www.eurodig.org/index.php?id=76>* roundtable '*Internet successes and failures to support a world living under COVID19 lockdown <https://bit.ly/2MEduQU>*'. Apart from COVID-19, the recent "*New IP <https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/studygroups/2017-2020/13/Documents/Internet_20…>*" proposal will also be discussed. *KEY PARTICIPANTS* - *Paul Blaker* – Head of Global Internet Governance, DCMS, UK - *Vint Cerf* – Chief Internet Evangelist, Google - *David Conrad* – Chief Technical Officer, ICANN - *John Grant* – Chair of Non IP Networking ISG, ETSI - *Marco Hogewoning* – Senior External Relations Officer, RIPE NCC - *Olaf Kolkman* – Principal, Internet technology, Policy and Advocacy, Internet Society - *Anthony Rutkowski* – Principal, Netmagic Associates LLC *MODERATORS* - *Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond* - DC CIV - *Shane Tews* - DC IoT *LIVESTREAM https://livestream.com/internetsociety/pre07 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/pre07>* *EURODIG YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/wEmlf4n2LJk <https://youtu.be/wEmlf4n2LJk>* *AGENDA https://bit.ly/2MEduQU <https://bit.ly/2MEduQU>* *FORUM https://bit.ly/2Yi0o0O <https://bit.ly/2Yi0o0O>* *TWITTER #EuroDIG2020 #Pre07 <https://bit.ly/3h3RoW1> * . *Permalink* https://isoc.live/12206/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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#Strike4BlackLives and #ShutDownAcademia
by Lynn Schofield Clark 10 Jun '20

10 Jun '20

Today, the Association of Internet Researchers joins in the worldwide movements to #ShutDownAcademia and #Strike4BlackLives. We condemn anti-Black racism and brutality and support those who have been participating in demonstrations and working against systemic racism. We recognize the traumatic impact the recent deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and so many others have had - on many of us, and on Black colleagues in particular. State violence against Black communities is connected to colonialist histories, and we recognize that white supremacy and systems of oppression are similarly woven into the systems of higher education. As part of our organization’s commitment to anti-racist pedagogy and scholarship, we center the voices and scholarship of Black and Brown colleagues, and encourage taking this day to self-educate and to consider how structural racism has played out, and continues to play out, in scholarship and pedagogies. In solidarity, members and friends of the Association have been compiling a list of resources for critical race and internet studies. Please share and offer suggestions to this list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h809wXUByII2tT0dLlUrgF5r9LK1I2aAel_hF89… The organization’s current leadership is inviting insights on how the upcoming virtual conference may provide spaces for discussions about race. We also we seek to take the organization toward structural change that addresses the many challenges we are facing as scholars, educators, and as human beings. Please contact anyone on the AoIR Executive Board if you would like to participate in this discussion on elevating critical race and internet studies in the Association of Internet Researchers. On behalf of the members of the AoIR Executive Board, Lynn Schofield Clark, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) Professor, Chair & Director, Estlow Center for Journalism & New Media Department of Media, Film & Journalism Studies University of Denver And President, international Association of Internet Researchers <http://aoir.org/> LynnSchofieldClark.com In the spirit of healing, I acknowledge and honor the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, and all of the original Indigenous peoples of the land upon which University of Denver stands.

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WEBCAST TODAY: COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps in the US, EU and Asia
by Joly MacFie 10 Jun '20

10 Jun '20

Further views on contact tracing. A transcript <https://isoc.live/misc/2020.06.09_iscc_safe_to_trace.pdf> of yesterday's ISOC Canada call is available ISOC Live posted: "On Wednesday June 10 2020 at 9am-10am EDT (13:00-14:00 UTC) the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung and the Center for Democracy & Technology will host a webinar 'COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps in the U.S., EU and Asia'. Speakers from all three regions will discuss" [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cdt>On *Wednesday June 10 2020* at *9am-10am EDT* (13:00-14:00 UTC) the *Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung <https://us.boell.org/>* and the *Center for Democracy & Technology <https://cdt.org/>* will host a webinar '*COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps in the U.S., EU and Asia <https://cdt.org/event/cdt-webinar-series-covid-19-contact-tracing-apps-in-t…>*'. Speakers from all three regions will discuss the current debates on best practices to use technology to effectively contact trace while maintaining privacy. This is the inaugural webinar for the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung’s Tech and COVID-19 webinar series, and the third installment of CDT’s webinar series on Tech Policy Responses to COVID-19. *SPEAKERS* - *Greg Nojeim*, Director, Freedom, Security and Technology Project, CDT - *Dev Lewis*, Fellow and Program Lead, Digital Asia Hub - *Frederike Kaltheuner*, Tech Policy Fellow, Mozilla Foundation *MODERATOR* *Sabine Muscat*, Program Director, Technology and Digital Policy, ,Heinrich Böll Foundation, Washington DC *LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cdt <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/cdt>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://bit.ly/3f2wSD7 <https://bit.ly/3f2wSD7>* *QUESTIONS email questions(a)cdt.org <questions(a)cdt.org> | Twitter #cdtquestions <https://twitter.com/hashtag/cdtquestions?src=hashtag_click&f=live> * *TWITTER: @CenDemTech @boell_us #contacttracing <https://twitter.com/search?q=%40CenDemTech%20%40boell_us%20%23contacttracin…>* *SIMULCASTS:* *https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/ <https://www.pscp.tv/ISOC_Live/>* *https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive <https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/12198/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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