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Reminder: HIV and COVID-19 CFP
by Jaime García Iglesias 01 Jun '20

01 Jun '20

CFP for Culture, Health and Sexuality "Viral Times" Deadline for abstracts: June 16, 2020 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. Information about the submission process can be found here: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/viral-times/ Questions may be directed to jaime.garciaiglesias(a)manchester.ac.uk and maurice.nagington(a)manchester.ac.uk *Jaime Garcia-Iglesias* The University of Manchester Twitter <https://outlook.manchester.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=A_gZOKKCeUAotWHc_1i3ExusP…> ¦ Academia <https://outlook.manchester.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=Rgjwhvh-Nj7EqjH53AkxYFG26…> ¦ UoM <https://outlook.manchester.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=KcbFOtK5fr0gpIFVMAiLCtgC_…>

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Virtual Summer Speaker Series: Fake News & Disinformation and Its Spread
by Jeffery Joe Hemsley 01 Jun '20

01 Jun '20

Virtual Summer Speaker Series: Fake News & Disinformation and Its Spread The Center for Computational and Data Science (CCDS) in the iSchool at Syracuse University invites you to join us for our Virtual Summer Speaker Series. We will host three presentations in June, July and August. The theme for the series will focus on: Fake News & Disinformation and Its Spread. Event registration is required and we will be using Zoom as our virtual platform. Please find below the details and we look forward to welcoming these thought-provoking speakers. We hope you will join us this summer! Wednesday, June 17, 2020 12:00-1:00PM EST Disinformation, Political Networks and Social Media in Brazil This talk will discuss research results about how Brazilian political networks spread and legitimate disinformation on social media, focusing on types, characteristics and discursive strategies. Raquel Recuero is a professor at Federal University of Pelotas (UFPEL) and Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) in Brazil, and a researcher for the National Research Council (CNPq). She is also the lead of MIDIARS (Research Laboratory on Discourse, Social Media and Social Networks). Sign-up: https://forms.gle/w7WotyFTpWYpuB5B7 Thursday, July 9, 2020 1:00-2:00PM EST Black Trolls Matter and Other Conclusions from Analyzing State-Sponsored This talk will discuss research Dr. Freelon conducted with colleagues on the Twitter component of the Internet Research Agency's (IRA) disinformation campaign before, during, and after the 2016 US elections. In particular, Deen will discuss the distinct appeal of Black-presenting trolls, how IRA tweets found their way into mainstream news articles, the types of audiences that consumed IRA content, and the IRA's effects on Twitter users' political opinions. Deen Freelon is an associate professor in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at UNC-Chapel Hill. These days he is mostly interested in disinformation, hyperpartisan communication, and computational methods. This research has been published in the following articles: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0894439320914853 https://www.pnas.org/content/117/1/243.short https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1940161219895215 https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/russian-disinformation-campai… Sign-up: https://forms.gle/iYJRdk71X7CnFLCL6 Wednesday, August 5, 2020 9:30-10:30AM EST Influencers, Misinformation, and 'Under the Radar' Strategies Drawing on research from various interconnected projects on influencer cultures and vigilante activism in Singapore and the Asia Pacific between 2011 and 2020, this talk provides a vernacular framework for thinking about the role of social media influencers, their involvement in circuits of (mis)information ecologies, and their innovative 'under the radar' strategies of communication, amplification, and suppression. Dr Crystal Abidin is a socio-cultural anthropologist of vernacular internet cultures, particularly influencer cultures, online visibility, and social media pop cultures especially in the Asia Pacific. She is Senior Research Fellow & ARC DECRA Fellow in Internet Studies and at the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University, and Affiliate Researcher with the Media Management and Transformation Centre at Jönköping University. Her books include Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online (2018), Microcelebrity Around the Globe: Approaches to Cultures of Internet Fame (co-editor Brown, 2018), Instagram: Visual Social Media Cultures (co-authors Leaver & Highfield, 2019), Mediated Interfaces: The Body on Social Media (co-editors Warfield & Cambre, 2020), and tumblr: Curation, Creativity and Community. (co-authors Tiidenberg & Hendry, forthcoming). Crystal was listed on Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia and Pacific Standard 30 Top Thinkers Under 30, and recently received the International Communication Association Popular Communication Early Career Scholar Prize and Isaac Manasseh Meyer Fellowship. Reach her at wishcrys.com. Sign-up: https://forms.gle/LitdTXTPk27iYnFw6 Should you have any questions or issues please direct to Lisette Child, Project Manager for the CCDS at ldchild(a)syr.edu<mailto:ldchild@syr.edu>, or Jeff Hemsley, co-director of the Center for Computational and Data Sciences, at jjhemsle(a)syr.edu.

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Making Public Presents the Urgent Publishing Toolkit and Publication
by Geert Lovink 01 Jun '20

01 Jun '20

What strategies are available to publishers in the cultural and research domains to conceive, produce, and position their contents in an urgent way? In the two-year research project Making Public (2018-2020) conducted by the Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and partners, which has come to a close, methods and prototypes are developed to counter the contemporary speedy information sphere in new and different ways. Starting out from the observation that small-scale publishers often experience a trade-off between publishing under time pressure and upholding quality standards, we looked into other ways to conceive of timely publishing. Experiments with modular publishing, algorithmic recommendations, and digital remediation, have led to the development of hybrid content formats and new options for positioning publications with reading audiences. All of those are available in open access in the Urgent Publishing Toolkit. Central to the project is the concept of urgent publishing. Urgent publishing pertains both to timeliness and relevance. The final publication of the project, Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing offers an inquiry into urgency in publishing, next to presenting desk research and the experiments conducted by the three research groups. It develops a situated account of hybrid publishing, where authors, editors, publishers, designers, and readers operate together. The publication is available in open access, in both digital and print formats. The urgent publishing strategies that the prototypes and methods embody and that are described in detail in Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing focus on the following key notions: Relations between different content modules, that allow for multi-linear narratives and other (rhetorical) forms of presenting information. Trust in the network, both of publishers who can benefit from each other’s platforms and reach, and of readers who are interested in in-depth content. Remediation which allows publications to extend their afterlife and find readers by offering them ways to engage directly with materials. All information can be found on the website of the Institute of Network Cultures: Making Public website <https://networkcultures.org/makingpublic/> Urgent Publishing Toolkit <https://networkcultures.org/makingpublic/2020/05/14/urgent-publishing-toolk…> Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing <https://networkcultures.org/makingpublic/urgentpublishing/> Order your free paper copy here: https://networkcultures.org/publications/order-inc-publications/ <https://networkcultures.org/publications/order-inc-publications/> Collaborating partners: 1001 Publishers, Amateur Cities, Amsterdam University Press, ArtEZ University of the Arts, Hackers & Designers, Mind Design, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Open!, Open Set, Puntpixel, Studio BLT, Valiz, and Willem de Kooning Academy. The research was supported by Regieorgaan SIA (Taskforce for Applied Research).

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Twitter Collection and Analysis Toolkit seeks caring new owner
by Jacob Groshek 01 Jun '20

01 Jun '20

Dear Colleagues and Friends, I hope this message finds everyone doing well and managing through this difficult time. I am posting to this list because, after about 7+ years, I am decommissioning a Digital Methods Initiative Twitter Collection and Analysis Toolkit (DMI-TCAT) installation that I oversee. More details on this system, developed by Erik Borra and Bernhard Rieder, are available on github here https://github.com/digitalmethodsinitiative/dmi-tcat While this is an open source platform that was generously made freely available by the developers (sincere and deep thanks to Erik and Bernhard), there can be costs involved with hosting and storage of the system and data. So while there are a variety of reasons for my decision, including a finite amount of research funds that I can dedicate each year, I am truly saddened to be pulling the plug especially because I am fully aware of the value this system carries and its important as a resource for academic research. To cut to the chase, it is roughly $370 per month to host and store this TCAT on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and right now, this TCAT install is at about 70% elastic capacity with more than *560 million tweets* collected over the last few years, on a wide variety of topics, many that relate to political and health communication. If anyone is interested to take over this system, or if there are questions out there, please reach out to me off list and I'm happy to discuss. If there are no takers, this data will no longer be maintained by me after June 30, and repositories of literally hundreds of millions of tweets on COVID-19 and other topics will be lost to the ether. Sorry for the long-ish message and thanks for your consideration. Best regards, Jacob -- Dr. Jacob Groshek Ross Beach Chair in Emerging Media Research and Associate Professor Kansas State University jacobgroshek.com | @jacobgroshek <https://twitter.com/jacobgroshek> | google scholar <https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=G1XXhccAAAAJ&hl=en> Honorary Associate Professor, Roskilde University <https://ruc.dk/en/department-communication-and-arts> Associate Director, CMCS @ <https://sites.bu.edu/cmcs/> Boston U <https://sites.bu.edu/cmcs/> | Founding Editor, *JoCTEC <http://www.joctec.org/>* Previously: Erasmus U <https://www.eur.nl/en/eshcc/research/ermecc/people/research-fellows> | NeSCoR <http://nescor.socsci.uva.nl/> | Boston Civic Media <http://bostoncivic.media/> | IAST <http://www.iast.fr/> +1-857-615-4709

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Facebook enabling violent extremists in the US: response?
by Mathieu.O'Neil 01 Jun '20

01 Jun '20

Dear friends and colleagues in the Internet Research community: As the United States is struggling with a terrible pandemic, an economic crisis, and protests against police brutality and racism, it is extremely concerning to come across reports from credible sources showing that Facebook, out of a desire to placate unfounded criticism that it has a "left-wing bias" is allowing armed groups to explicitly organize for a civil war (aka "boogaloo") on its platform. These groups are not uniformly racist, though many overlap with far-right extremists. The following article leaves no doubt that this activity is mere "shitposting": Robert Evans and Jason Wilson, The Boogaloo Movement Is Not What You Think, Bellingcat, May 27, 2020. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/27/the-boogaloo-movement-is-not-wha… A recent report shows that Facebook knows exactly what it is doing: John Whitehouse, Bombshell report: Facebook has known that it is fomenting extremism for years -- and refuses to stop, MediaMatters, May 26, 2020. https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/bombshell-report-facebook-has-known-i… Clearly, what Facebook is doing is indefensible. It has to stop. What should be done? I know some people on this list work for Facebook. I know some people on this list are being funded, or applying to be funded by Facebook. I am sorry if this message places you in a difficult position. Everyone deals with things in their own way. For me, Facebook has been an important part of my life for a very long time. I love keeping in touch with people from all over the world and learning about their lives and their societies. Leaving it would mean perhaps losing touch with these people forever. But, for me, that's not enough to outweigh what the company is doing. I believe a strong message has to be sent now. I'm not very good at memes. But they work! My proposal is simple. We create a meme with a simple message, something like: FACEBOOK IS ENABLING VIOLENT HATE GROUPS MAKE FACEBOOK STOP NOW IF NOT: #BOYCOTTFACEBOOK We set up a resource page or Twitter account called #BOYCOTTFACEBOOK which outlines our point: stop doing this. Or we will leave. And we will urge advertisers and others to leave as well. We set up a petition to collect sigs (expensive) or we get "influencers" to circulate the meme (cheap). If someone has a better idea, please respond! I wrote "we" and "our" throughout because I sure hope others feel the way I do. But if I don't hear back a more effective proposal within 48 hours I will make my own (crap) meme and post it to Facebook alongside this text. I will download my content and withdraw from Facebook - I don't want to leave completely as this is my only bargaining chip so will "suspend" my account or whatever is possible. I will also create the Twitter account. Cheers, Mathieu PS. Some of you may have been harassed online by trolls for speaking out against racism and extremism. I am sorry. I never have. I don't want to be. If it happens, I will deal with it. We should not be cowed. PPS. Some research on social media in general and Facebook in particular (taken from Bellingcat article): Ines von Behr, Anaïs Reding, Charlie Edwards, Luke Gribbon (2013) Radicalisation in the digital era. The use of the internet in 15 cases of terrorism and extremism, RAND Europe. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR400/RR453/RAN… Séraphin Alava, Divina Frau-Meigs, Ghayda Hassan (2017) Youth and violent extremism on social media: mapping the research. UNESCO. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000260382 Ryan Scrivens, Amarnath Amarasingam (2020) Haters Gonna "Like": Exploring Canadian Far-Right Extremism on Facebook. 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Responsible IT research position at Hogeschool van Amsterdam
by Geert Lovink 29 May '20

29 May '20

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New book: Immersion and Participation in Punchdrunk's Theatrical Worlds
by Carina Westling 28 May '20

28 May '20

Dear all, My book *Immersion and Participation in Punchdrunk's Theatrical Worlds *(Bloomsbury) is now available in paperback, hardback and e-book ( https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/immersion-and-participation-in-punchdrunks-th…) It is an in-depth exploration of immersion and participation in cross-platform spaces, and introduces a theoretical framework that allows for interrogation of virtual and physical scenographies and the inflection of conditions of possibility by how audience/user agency is modelled by their designers. The book is written around case studies of Punchdrunk, Chinese Room, Blast Theory, The Mill and other digital and cross-platform designers and an in-depth ethnographic study of how audiences and makers perceive interaction across interfaces. To accommodate analyses of cross-platform experience designed for immersive experience, I drew on critiques of representation in and beyond performance, media philosophy, critical posthumanism and infrastructure studies to articulate questions around space and place in interactive systems. Central to the book is a study of how experience is produced in interaction with designed virtual or physical spaces by audiences, and the role of complicity. The theoretical framework that the book introduces affords analyses of material cultures and the influence of technology on interaction design in theatre and beyond, and offers a blueprint for next-generation immersive design and scenography for interactive multimedia environments. Carina Westling Lecturer, Cross-Platform Media Bournemouth University cwestling(a)bournemouth.ac.uk ORCID 0000-0002-6549-0974 Twitter: @doctrixwestling

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New book: Digital Life
by Tim Markham 28 May '20

28 May '20

Dear all, I’m pleased to announce the publication of my new book, Digital Life<https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509541058&subject_id=6>, with Polity Press. Intended as a provocation to think differently about digital media and what it is doing to us, it argues that what it means to live ethically and politically is realised through and not in spite of the everyday experience of digital life. Here’s the pitch: Digital Life<https://politybooks.com/bookdetail/?isbn=9781509541058&subject_id=6> takes aim squarely at the prevailing conventional wisdom that the encroaching pervasiveness of digital media in our everyday lives is undermining core notions of politics, sociality and ethics. Its principal claim is simple: instead of ethical and political principles enduring in spite of the myriad distractions of digital life, such principles are constituted precisely through those distractions. That word constitutive is key, and it echoes Heidegger, for whom what we think of as inauthentic ways of being – idle talk and curiosity in his case, meandering about online seeking out diversion and affect in ours – should be understood as being just as ontologically foundational as anything else. All we have are the selves we constantly find ourselves thrown into, already acting in the thick of it. That can sound like fatalism, as though we just have to accept what we find ourselves doing in whatever world we’re thrown into, but we’re also hardwired to make that world familiar and to take responsibility for that self. Likewise, it can sound like the past doesn’t matter, only the now, which would make it difficult to criticise the way our world is rapidly changing. But the past is always part of our experience of the present, just not as an origin from which we’ve departed and by implication to which we should seek to return. We worry that while we’re better connected than ever our relations with mediated others are ersatz or virtue-signalling – but what if fleeting, ephemeral engagement is a better way of understanding our co-existence with others than deep reflection? Similarly, we fret that surveillance and data mining are fundamentally eroding ethical principles like autonomy and privacy – but what if there is no prior self to be defended against external forces? We express concern that the rise of identity politics has led to a new politics in which how people feel trumps all other reasoning – but what if the way someone feels isn’t seen as individualistic and reductive, but pre-individual, collective and thus political? The failure to recognise the full horror of suffering witnessed on the run is not a failure of self, and nor is each instance of data mining a threat to the integrity of our very selves. The spontaneous, fickle and fissiparous formation of interest groups online might lack the dedication and determination of seriously minded political activism, and might seem driven more by the experience than outcome of engagement, but the things that emerge out of these digital constellations are no less political. Political principles are not internal qualities, hard won and carefully honed, that we go about applying to the world as we find it; principles only come into existence as we go about acting, more often than not improvisationally and almost always provisionally. The whole point of living an ethical life is about what becomes of the ways we live in motion, grasping at knowledge and experience as we go, not randomly but rhythmically, drawing on collective repertoires that are of the world rather than us. This, finally, is what allows us to see that the ordinary stuff we get up to in our mundane digital existences is pregnant with the political. Tim Markham<http://www.bbk.ac.uk/culture/staff/teaching-staff/tim-markham> is Professor of Journalism and Media at Birkbeck, University of London. He is also the author of Media and the Experience of Social Change: The Arab World<https://www.rowmaninternational.com/book/media_and_the_experience_of_social…> (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), Media and Everyday Life<https://www.macmillanihe.com/page/detail/media-and-everyday-life-tim-markha…> (Palgrave, 2017), and The Politics of War Reporting: Authority, Authenticity and Morality<https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719085284/> (Manchester, 2012); co-author of Media Consumption and Public Engagement: Beyond the Presumption of Attention<https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781403985347> (Palgrave, 2007; 2010) and co-editor of Conditions of Mediation: Phenomenological Perspectives on Media<https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/23231?format=PBK> (Peter Lang, 2017).

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WH's 'executive order' on social media leaked
by Richard Forno 28 May '20

28 May '20

That Tweety Amin's social media 'executive order' is out in less than 36 hours after he ranted about it strongly confirms this was their plan all along based on their rhetoric over the past year - they just needed the right moment to launch it for maximum effect. (Relatedly: good luck with it.) Not to mention, he needs another 'enemy' to distract from his Covid-19 failings, and of course it's well known that anyone who dares challenge his view of reality/truth is fair game -- in this case, big tech. Boss Tweety's EO will try to invoke Section 230(c) when social media sites “edit” (his words) content with labels like what Twitter did the other day ..... but of course, Twitter didn't actually "edit" his content. IMO this will be an interesting legal case about content (his words) vs the platform displaying said content (the Twitter box). Kate's got some good legal responses on her Twitter feed and also in the NYT article. My CIS colleage Daphne Keller provides some additional (and useful) color-coded reaction/context as well. PDF Draft @ https://kateklonick.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/DRAFT-EO-Preventing-Onli… A Quick Take on the May 26 Executive Order on Platforms and CDA 230 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JnK80wk4Smcu3lt4TCwajQNTk0_v1sNR-FGhnoM…

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WEBCAST TODAY: When Rhetoric Meets Reality: Digital Accessibility, Persons With Disabilities, and COVID-19 @a11ySIG #GAAD2020
by Joly MacFie 28 May '20

28 May '20

This is underway. We were able to arrange, at the last moment, sign interpreters for ASL and BSL. to complement our real time text captions. ISOC Live posted: "On May 28 2020, from 12:00-13:30 UTC, in celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (May 21) the Internet Society Accessibility Special Interest Group (A11ySIG) will host a webinar “When rhetoric meets reality: Digital Accessibility, Persons With D" [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/gaad2020>On *May 28 2020*, from *12:00-13:30 UTC*, in celebration of *Global Accessibility Awareness Day <https://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/>* (May 21) <https://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/>the* Internet Society Accessibility Special Interest Group <https://www.a11ysig.org/>* (A11ySIG) will host a webinar “*When rhetoric meets reality: Digital Accessibility, Persons With Disabilities and COVID-19 <https://www.a11ysig.org/gaad2020/>*” This free webinar bring together digital accessibility experts and people with disabilities to discuss the digital accessibility outlook beyond COVID-19. The webinar aims to share and offer a variety of ideas from different disabilities and different parts of the world. SPEAKERS: *David Berman*, David Berman communications (Canada); *Naveed Haq*, Regional Director Infrastructure and Connectivity, Asia Pacific Internet Society (Pakistan); *Gunela Astbrink*, Vice President Accessibility SIG (Australia); *Fernando Botelho*, F123 initiative (Brazil); *Judy Okite*, founder, Association for Accessibility and Equality (AAFE) (Kenya); *Peter Crosbie*, advocate for the autistic community (France); *Lidia Best*, Vice President, European Federation of Hard of Hearing (UK); *Manique Gunaratn*e, Manager, Specialized Training and Disability Resource Centre (Sri Lanka). MODERATOR: *Muhammad Shabbir Awan*, President, ISOC Accessibility SIG. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: http://livestream.com/internetsociety/gaad2020 <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/gaad2020>* (Open Captions, ASL, BSL) *REAL TIME TEXT: https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-A11YSIG <https://www.streamtext.net/player?event=CFI-A11YSIG>* *PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM: https://bit.ly/3bX0BM5 <https://bit.ly/3bX0BM5> * (Closed Captions, ASL, BSL) *TWITTER: @A11ySIG #GAAD2020 <http://bit.ly/a11ysiggaad2020>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/12121/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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