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Exciting Postdoctoral Fellowships at the University of Manchester
by Lukasz Szulc 11 Dec '25

11 Dec '25

Dear colleagues, The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester has announced a series of generous Postdoctoral Fellowships: - Bicentenary Research Fellowships in Humanities: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=33948 - Simon Research Fellowships in Humanities: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=33949 - Hallsworth Research Fellowships in Humanities: https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?JobId=33952 The fellowships are aimed at outstanding postdoctoral researchers within 3 years of their PhD. Fellows will need to work with a named mentor/mentoring team and address one or more of the University's research priorities. The deadline for the application is 16th January 2026. Potential applicants working on the topics of digital media, digital cultures and/or digital humanities are invited to contact core or affiliated members of our Centre for Digital Humanities, Cultures and Media to discuss their projects. Considering the tight deadline, we are encouraging you to contact us asap: https://www.digital-humanities.manchester.ac.uk/about/people/ All the best, Łukasz Dr Łukasz Szulc<https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/%C5%82ukasz-szulc> (he/him) Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture School of Arts, Languages and Cultures University of Manchester UNITED KINGDOM RECENT PUBLICATIONS (2025) Sad dating apps: Emotional technological determinism and agency in late modernity. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051251380042 (2024) Special Issue: Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media. https://academic.oup.com/ccc/issue/17/3 (2023) Culture is transnational. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13678779221131349

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[Vacancy] Lecturer in Cultural Data & AI – Media Studies – University of Amsterdam
by Fernando van der Vlist 11 Dec '25

11 Dec '25

Vacancy: Lecturer in Cultural Data & AI – Media Studies – University of Amsterdam # Critical Data & AI Studies The Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is looking for a Lecturer for a temporary period of four years to teach in the Media Studies BA and MA programmes, specifically in the BA track Cultural Information Studies and in the Master’s programme Cultural Data & AI. Teaching will take place in courses concerned with topics such as critical data and AI studies, AI practices, digital and computational methods, and contemporary themes in digital culture. Candidates must be in possession of a PhD to teach in the MA programme. Candidates should have considerable knowledge in the field of critical data studies, especially in the areas of computational research methods and critical AI studies. They will also have demonstrable capacities in media theory, AI ethics and data analysis. Practical experience in working analytically with cultural data sets (e.g., cultural heritage data, social media data) and computational tools is desirable. Of advantage would be experience in working with societal partners in the space of cultural data analysis. The successful candidate will be a member of the Critical Data & AI team in the Media Studies Department. To learn more about this vacancy and apply, please see: https://werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies/lecturer-in-cultural-data-ai-d4-nethe… # Your application & contact ## Questions? For questions about the position or department, you can contact us during office hours at: Prof. dr. T. (Thomas) Poell, professor of Data, Culture & Institutions ## Application If you recognize yourself in the profile and are interested in the position, we look forward to receiving your application. Please send as a single PDF file your cover (motivation) letter and CV, including the names and email addresses of two referees who can provide letters of recommendation. Only complete applications received by the deadline via the link below will be considered. The vacancy closes on 4-1-2026. Interviews, including a short trial lecture, will take place on 16-1-2026. -- *Dr. Fernando van der Vlist* *Assistant Professor · Coordinator Master’s Cultural Data & AI* *University of Amsterdam (UvA)* Media Studies · Faculty of Humanities Digital Methods Initiative (DMI) · App Studies Initiative (ASI) BG 1 <https://www.uva.nl/en/shared-content/locaties/en/binnenstad/bg-1.html> · 2.22 · Turfdraagsterpad 9, 1012 XT Amsterdam, Netherlands f.n.vandervlist(a)uva.nl · Profile <https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/f.n.vandervlist/> · Publications <https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/f.n.vandervlist/#Publications> Homepage <https://www.fernandovandervlist.nl/> · 𝕏 (Twitter) <https://x.com/fvandervlist> · Bluesky <https://bsky.app/profile/fvandervlist.bsky.social> · LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/fvandervlist> · Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vFkliXsAAAAJ> · ORCID <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1401-0325>

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Call for Papers: Karl Marx and Max Weber on the Topic of Machines Dominating Labour - Deadline 31, DEC 2025
by Noel Packard 11 Dec '25

11 Dec '25

CAll for PAPERS LINK HERE: https://www.sociologygroup.com/call-for-papers-karl-marx-and-max-weber-on-t… Deadline for abstract submissions 31 December 2025 Online only social science conference *PART OF THE JOINT CONFERENCE 2026 (JC2026) **The 2nd RC20 Regional Conference on Comparative Sociology **The 1st RC56 Regional Conference on Historical Sociology **The 5th RC33 Regional Conference on Social Science Methodology: Asia **📍 Khon Kaen University, Thailand / Japan Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan **🗓 24–28 August 2026 **(Online Conference) *Conference link: https://www.comparative-sociology.online/JC2026.htm More info: An Interview with Organizer Noel Packard RE: Karl Marx and Max Weber on Machines Dominating Labour https://www.sociologygroup.com/an-interview-with-dr-noel-packard-karl-marx-…

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Space still available, don't wait!
by Helaine Blumenthal 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

"The Wikipedia assignment is the coolest thing I've done in 10 years of teaching." - professor Eric Guisbert, University of Nebraska Omaha ------------------------------ Couldn't make the priority application deadline, but have 30 minutes to apply now? Good news! There's still time to receive Wiki Education's free suite of digital support to run your own Wikipedia assignment <http://wikiedu.org/teach-with-wikipedia/> this spring. We’re now accepting spring 2026 courses as space permits, so don’t wait — be sure to apply asap to save your spot. Apply now: Visit the Dashboard <http://dashboard.wikiedu.org> (our course management platform) to create your Wikipedia account, then head back to dashboard.wikiedu.org to: 1. Take the 30-minute orientation (how it works) 2. Create and submit your course page (you can always change it later!) ------------------------------ Questions? Learn more at teach.wikiedu.org, reach out to andres(a)wikiedu.org, or join the upcoming information session to connect live: What’s a Wikipedia Assignment? Tuesday, December 16, 2025 9 am Pacific / 12 pm Eastern Zoom Registration <https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/D7p5NZGjQKS2req5w8gFUQ> -- Helaine Blumenthal,Ph.D. Senior Program Manager Wiki Education helaine(a)wikiedu.org teach.wikiedu.org <https://wikiedu.org/teach-with-wikipedia/> Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/WikiEducationFoundation/>, Linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/company/wiki-education-foundation/>

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RECORDING – E&C Hearing: Legislative Solutions To Protect Children And Teens Online
by Joly MacFie 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

<https://isoc.live/19906> [image: ISOC LIVE] <https://isoc.live/19906>*VIDEO <https://youtu.be/gFCluhojZFM> | AUDIO <https://archive.org/download/house-kids/house-kids.mp3> | RECAP <https://www.patreon.com/posts/145542287/> | ARCHIVE <https://archive.org/details/house-kids> | PERMALINK <https://isoc.live/19906>* On *December 2, 2025*, the *House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade <https://energycommerce.house.gov/news/commerce-manufacturing-and-trade> *held a hearing titled ‘*Legislative Solutions to Protect Children and Teens Online <https://energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chairmen-guthrie-and-bilirakis-annou…>*‘. The hearing examined nearly 20 bills forming a proposed comprehensive federal framework for youth online safety, including KOSA, COPPA 2.0, age verification, chatbot regulation, app design safeguards, parental controls, and FTC enforcement authorities. A follow up *markup session had been announced <https://energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chairmen-guthrie-and-bilirakis-annou…>* for *December 11, 2025* *WITNESSES* *Marc Berkman – *Chief Executive Officer, Organization for Social Media Safety *Joel Thayer* – President, Digital Progress Institute *Paul Lekas* – Executive Vice President, Software & Information Industry Association *Kate Ruane* – Director of the Free Expression Project, Center for Democracy & Technology - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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CFP: Digital Platforms and Digital Labor in East Asia and Beyond — Special Issue, Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
by Dechun Zhang 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

Dear colleagues, The Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia (JCEA) is pleased to invite submissions for a special issue titled “Digital Platforms and Digital Labor in East Asia and Beyond.” This issue explores how platform companies have become key infrastructures of contemporary life, reorganizing economic exchange, labor relations, and everyday social interaction. With Asia as a central site of platform innovation—from Alibaba, Meituan, and Didi to Coupang, Rakuten, Grab, Gojek, Shopee and beyond—this special issue highlights how platform-mediated work emerges and is contested in diverse political, social, and cultural contexts, and how these experiences speak back to global debates on the future of work. Across the region, ride-hailing, food-delivery, e-commerce, livestreaming, influencer economies, and other platform-based industries are reshaping what it means to work, organize, and be governed. Platforms promise flexibility, entrepreneurship, and new forms of aspirational and creative labor, yet they also deepen precarity through algorithmic management, opaque data practices, and limited social protections. We therefore invite contributions that critically investigate these tensions, foreground workers’ perspectives, and situate Asian cases within comparative and global conversations on digital capitalism and labor. We welcome submissions from communication and media studies, sociology, anthropology, political economy, labor studies, law, Asian studies, and related fields. Submissions may employ qualitative, quantitative, computational, or mixed methods, and may be empirical or theoretical in nature. Potential topics include (but are not limited to): * Algorithmic management, surveillance, and labor control in platform economies * Worker agency, identity, and resistance in gig and creative labor * Regulation, law, and welfare regimes shaping platform work * Gender, class, race/ethnicity, and migration in digital labor markets * Blurred boundaries between production and consumption (prosumption, user participation, datafication) * Transnational digital labor, outsourcing, and cross-border freelancing * Emerging technologies (AI, automation, blockchain, IoT) and the future of work We particularly encourage papers that place Asian experiences in comparative or global perspective, and that extend or challenge existing theoretical frameworks in digital labor studies, platform capitalism, and critical political economy. The full CFP is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13DVKzyEVc0563TVdQUQzpR-yCDR7Yp-4/view?usp=… Submission Guidelines Please submit an abstract of up to 500 words in English and a short author bio to j.c.eastern.asia(a)gmail.com, with “JCEA Special Issue – Digital Platforms and Digital Labor” as the email subject line Key Dates * Abstract submission: 20 March 2026 * Notification of invitation to submit full paper: 1 April 2026 * Full paper submission: 30 September 2026 Further information about the journal is available at: https://jceasia.org/ We very much look forward to your abstracts and to advancing critical conversations on digital platforms and digital labor in East Asia and beyond. Best wishes Dechun Zhang JCEA Managing Editor (on behalf of the JCEA Editorial Board)

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CFP: Digital Platforms and Digital Labor in East Asia and Beyond — Special Issue, Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
by Dechun Zhang 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

Dear colleagues, The Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia (JCEA) is pleased to invite submissions for a special issue titled “Digital Platforms and Digital Labor in East Asia and Beyond.” This issue explores how platform companies have become key infrastructures of contemporary life, reorganizing economic exchange, labor relations, and everyday social interaction. With Asia as a central site of platform innovation—from Alibaba, Meituan, and Didi to Coupang, Rakuten, Grab, Gojek, Shopee and beyond—this special issue highlights how platform-mediated work emerges and is contested in diverse political, social, and cultural contexts, and how these experiences speak back to global debates on the future of work. Across the region, ride-hailing, food-delivery, e-commerce, livestreaming, influencer economies, and other platform-based industries are reshaping what it means to work, organize, and be governed. Platforms promise flexibility, entrepreneurship, and new forms of aspirational and creative labor, yet they also deepen precarity through algorithmic management, opaque data practices, and limited social protections. We therefore invite contributions that critically investigate these tensions, foreground workers’ perspectives, and situate Asian cases within comparative and global conversations on digital capitalism and labor. We welcome submissions from communication and media studies, sociology, anthropology, political economy, labor studies, law, Asian studies, and related fields. Submissions may employ qualitative, quantitative, computational, or mixed methods, and may be empirical or theoretical in nature. Potential topics include (but are not limited to): * Algorithmic management, surveillance, and labor control in platform economies * Worker agency, identity, and resistance in gig and creative labor * Regulation, law, and welfare regimes shaping platform work * Gender, class, race/ethnicity, and migration in digital labor markets * Blurred boundaries between production and consumption (prosumption, user participation, datafication) * Transnational digital labor, outsourcing, and cross-border freelancing * Emerging technologies (AI, automation, blockchain, IoT) and the future of work We particularly encourage papers that place Asian experiences in comparative or global perspective, and that extend or challenge existing theoretical frameworks in digital labor studies, platform capitalism, and critical political economy. The full CFP is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13DVKzyEVc0563TVdQUQzpR-yCDR7Yp-4/view?usp=… Submission Guidelines Please submit an abstract of up to 500 words in English and a short author bio to j.c.eastern.asia(a)gmail.com, with “JCEA Special Issue – Digital Platforms and Digital Labor” as the email subject line Key Dates * Abstract submission: 20 March 2026 * Notification of invitation to submit full paper: 1 April 2026 * Full paper submission: 30 September 2026 Further information about the journal is available at: https://jceasia.org/ We very much look forward to your abstracts and to advancing critical conversations on digital platforms and digital labor in East Asia and beyond. Best wishes Dechun Zhang JCEA Managing Editor (on behalf of the JCEA Editorial Board)

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Level-up your social research toolkit — 50% OFF every course
by Alessandro Zonin 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

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Call for Contributions - Archival Education and Research Initiative 2026 Vancouver, Canada, July 20-24, 2026
by Amelia Acker 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

Apologies for cross posting! AERI is a wonderful institute for colleagues, including early career colleagues, practitioners and doctoral students interested in archival studies. If you have any questions, please reach out off list! AERI Call for Contributions<https://arc.net/l/quote/jbatqkih> – deadline January 5, 2026 The School of Information at the University of British Columbia (UBC iSchool) is looking forward to hosting the 2026 Archival Education and Research Institute (AERI) to be held in July 20-24, 2026, in Vancouver, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) People. These week-long institutes are designed to strengthen archival education and research and support academic cohort-building and mentoring. Institutes are open to all academic faculty/staff and students at all levels working in archival studies, as well as archival professionals and others engaged in archival education, research and scholarship, broadly conceived. AERI seeks to advance the field of archival studies by: * Creating a dynamic community of researchers, teachers, and students to help mentor doctoral students and academic faculty in areas such as dissertation/thesis preparation, grant writing, publishing, career development, and work/life balance. * Advancing curriculum development in archival studies at all levels – undergraduate, graduate/postgraduate, and continuing education. * Furthering current research development inside the academy and in practice through paper presentations, posters, and workshop activities. * Fostering interest in future collaborations, intra- and internationally. Since this is a working institute, all participants, with the exception of students who are about to commence their studies, are expected to contribute in some way to the working meeting. Contribution might be in a variety of roles, including but not limited to presenters, instructors, mentors, moderators, and AERI steering committee members. We invite proposals for contributions that fit within AERI’s goals. These could include: * short papers (15 minutes) * panels (1.5 hours, with 3 or more speakers) * workshops (half day or full day) * pedagogical * curricular * methodological * technological * mentorship/professional development * performances * posters * round tables for gathering scholars with mutual interests * unconference proposals for half- or full-day programming structured by participants As a research institute, we welcome any of the above contribution formats to focus on research at any stage (e.g. findings of recently completed projects, works in progress, etc.). There is no formal theme for AERI; as a research institute, we invite you to come talk about the work you are doing now with other archival scholars and educators. AERI is a primarily in-person event, but the Program Committee is conscious that not everyone will be able to travel in person to the conference. We do not have the funds to make the conference fully hybrid, but we may have capacity to offer a limited number of hybrid sessions. Final decisions on hybrid sessions will depend on proposals received. To submit: Please submit a 250-300 word abstract outlining your proposed contribution. Be sure to also indicate the format for your contribution (e.g. paper, panel, poster, workshop, performance, etc.), as well as 100-150 word bio(s) for all confirmed speakers. Abstracts and speaker bios should be sent to aeri.2026(a)ubc.ca<mailto:aeri.2026@ubc.ca> by midnight PST, Monday, January 5, 2026. Timeline for Applications: * Deadline for submission of proposals: Monday, January 5, 2026. * Applicants notified of admission / registration opens: Early February * Registration closes: TBD As with past AERI meetings, there will be a series of local tours as well as social and mentoring events held around the meeting schedule. Additional information about these will be posted on the forthcoming AERI 2026 website. We look forward to welcoming you to Vancouver in July 2026. Amelia Acker, Associate Professor Department of Library & Information Science School of Communication & Information Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey http://www.ameliaacker.com/ Editor, Journal of Cultural Analytics<https://culturalanalytics.org/about> New book: Archiving Machines: From Punch Cards to Platforms<https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553247/archiving-machines/> Recent publications: How “Archive” Became a Verb<https://issues.org/archiving-machines-acker/> Data Work in Memory Institutions: Why and How Information Professionals Use Wikidata<https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3757575> The Sage Handbook of Data and Society<https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/the-sage-handbook-of-data-and-society/book…>

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Invitation to French stakeholder event (in French) - Invitation à la journée d’étude « Grandir à l’ère du numérique » - Paris, 17 décembre
by Anaëlle Gonzalez 10 Dec '25

10 Dec '25

Dear all, I would like to share an invitation to our Study Day/Stakeholder Event — Growing Up in the Digital Age: Five Years of European Research on Screens and Adolescent Mental Health. Please note that this event will be held in French, and is intended primarily for a French-speaking audience (researchers, practitioners, institutions, and organizations working with young people in France). Topic: How do digital media shape young people’s well-being and mental health today? Growing up in 2025 means navigating daily between smartphones, social networks, online gaming, and platforms like Spotify. While these digital practices can boost some adolescents’ self-esteem, they can also heighten anxiety for others. Understanding why these effects occur—and for whom—has never been more essential. Since 2020, researchers from KU Leuven (Belgium), the University of Tours (France), and the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) have been conducting the international MIMIc<http://www.projectmimic.eu/fr> project (coordinated by Prof. Laura Vandenbosch), funded by the European Research Council (ERC). The project examines the digital habits of more than 2,700 adolescents aged 12 to 18 in Belgium, Slovenia, and France — including over 800 in France alone. Our research focuses on two central questions: * Do young people imitate the lifestyles they see on social media and entertainment platforms, and what does this mean for their mental health? * How do their favorite influencers convey political and moral messages that may, in turn, shape adolescents’ beliefs and behaviors? As we conclude this project, we are pleased to invite you to our study day, which will take place on Wednesday, 17 December 2025, from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm at Deskeo République – 32 Rue René Boulanger, 75010 Paris (with an option to join online, though in-person attendance is encouraged). This event aims to bring scientific findings into dialogue with educational practice and emerging regulatory frameworks, including the Digital Services Act. It will bring together researchers, institutional stakeholders, education professionals, and youth-focused organisations. Confirmed speakers include Prof. Grégoire Borst (Université Paris Descartes), Arthur Tréguier (DSA Officer for France, European Commission) and Mrs Axelle Desaint (director of Internet Sans Crainte). You will find all relevant materials attached and listed below: * Mandatory registration link: https://forms.gle/TeZNqqU4TX15mnQE8 * LinkedIn invitation: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/anaellegonzalez_dsa-jeunesetaezcrans-recherc… We look forward to sharing our findings and engaging in discussion with all stakeholders committed to supporting young people in their digital lives. We would also be grateful if you could circulate this invitation within your networks and institutions to encourage broad participation. Kind regards, Dr. Anaëlle Gonzalez Postdoctoral researcher at the Media Psychology Lab<https://research.kuleuven.be/portal/en/unit/50019224>, Department of Communication Science KU Leuven | Parkstraat 45 | 3000 Leuven | Belgium anaelle.gonzalez(a)kuleuven.be<mailto:anaelle.gonzalez@kuleuven.be>

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