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Write for AI Policy Exchange
by Antara vats 21 Apr '20

21 Apr '20

Dear All, I hope everybody is staying safe! I am delighted to introduce you to AI Policy Exchange <http://www.aipolicyexchange.org/> — an independent online journal aspiring to become a one-stop platform for publishing and reading the most pressing discourses on AI policy and governance. AI Policy Exchange is the brainchild of a small group of graduate students of the Institute of Public Policy at the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. We are a group of driven individuals who firmly believe in the primacy of wide-ranging discourse as a mandatory precondition for crafting an effective and just policy framework. As we understand, most current policy discourses on AI today tend to become too esoteric for ordinary citizens to grasp at the expense of their moral right to know how the burgeoning AI industry is going to impact their lives. We believe AI Policy Exchange can help change that by publishing simple, insightful blogs on topical issues concerning AI policy and governance. AI Policy Exchange is up and running, and we are accepting blogs from AI developers, policy researchers, lawyers, economists, sociologists, psychologists, ethicists, and many others, including all the tech conscious Samaritans of the world, who wish to put their points of view on the policy agenda that will govern AI in the future. Your demonstrated expertise in exploring the wicked interface between artificially intelligent technologies and public policy tempts us to invite you to write for AI Policy Exchange. You can read our full call for articles, including our author guidelines and copyright policy, by visiting this link <https://aipolicyexchange.org/2019/08/12/write-for-ai-policy-exchange/>. Besides, we would urge you to spread the word within your network of potential contributors and become a part of our mission of making discourses on AI policy and governance accessible for the everyday citizen. Let's decide the future of AI, together. Best regards, *Antara Vats,* *Media Editor* *AI Policy Exchange <http://aipolicyexchange.org>* *antaravats(a)nls.ac.in <antaravats(a)nls.ac.in>* *Master's Programme in Public Policy* *National Law School of India University, Bangalore* *LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/antara-vats-52b678180?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_…> | +919650935671*

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Open PhD position at the Social Media Observatory at the Leibniz Institute for Media Research in Hamburg, Germany
by Felix Victor Münch 21 Apr '20

21 Apr '20

Hello everybody, We, the Leibniz Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow Institute, Hamburg, are looking for a Junior Researcher/PhD student in Computational Social Science to join our Social Media Observatory Team: https://leibniz-hbi.github.io/SMO/2020/04/21/Social-Media-Observatory-Hires… Candidates should be fluent in spoken and written German (as much of the textual data we'll deal with will be in German). But I hope it still appeals to some of you or your students! The successful candidate would work with me on a day-to-day basis. So feel free to ask me anything! Cheers Dr. Felix Victor Münch Postdoc Researcher Leibniz Institut for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI), Hamburg: https://leibniz-hbi.de/ Social Media Observatory: https://leibniz-hbi.github.io/SMO/ https://felixvictor.net (https://felixvictor.net/)

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Social Media for Teaching and Learning in Latin America
by Enilda Romero-Hall 21 Apr '20

21 Apr '20

Hello! I am hoping that members of this community can help me. I am looking for research literature on the use of social media for teaching and learning in Latin America. This can be in an informal or formal context (elementary, secondary, or higher education). Thank you, Enilda Enilda Romero-Hall, Ph.D. Pronouns: she, her, hers Associate Professor University of Tampa https://www.enildaromero.net <https://twitter.com/eromerohall> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/romeroenilda/> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIe5o_F6eD8rNpRbdcbvCgQ/featured?view_as=s…>

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Global Webinar: Contagious Cities: Facing and Understanding the Pandemic
by Natalia Grincheva 21 Apr '20

21 Apr '20

Hope everybody is staying safe! The Cultural Research Network invites everybody to our global webinar that can answer many of your questions on the pandemic outbreak and its impacts. Please, come along and spread the word! Everybody is welcome! *Contagious Cities: Facing and Understanding the Pandemic**.* Are we ready to face the global challenge of Covid-19 pandemic outbreak? Do we know how microbes, migration and metropolises cohabitate or relate to each other? Can we tap into the artistic and cultural creativity to better understand the global infectious diseases or even investigate how they travel across urban and human borders? The webinar will raise and discuss these questions in a live conversation with artists, curators, researchers and cultural producers of the Contagious Cities <https://wellcome.ac.uk/what-we-do/our-work/contagious-cities>. This international cultural project was developed by Wellcome Trust <https://wellcome.ac.uk/> in 2018 to mark the centenary of the 1918 flu pandemic that infected a third of the world’s population and killed 50 million people. The VSG will share important insights from the Contagious Cities project, that brought together international curators, artists and scientists through residences across New York, Hong Kong and Geneva to explore how epidemics spread in urban environments. The webinar will be available via zoom. To register please visit here: https://contagious-cities.eventbrite.com *Date & Time:* April 30, 2020 New York 8:30 AM London 1:30 PM Moscow 3:30 PM Hong Kong 8:30 PM Sydney 10:30 PM *Panelists:* Ken Arnold - Creative Director at Wellcome (London, UK) Sarah Henry - Chief Curator and Deputy Director at the Museum of the City of New York (New York, USA) Ying Kwok - Curator of Contagious Cities: Far Away, Too Close at Tai Kwun Contemporary (Hong Kong, China) Matt Adams - Co-founder of Blast Theory (London, UK) James Doeser - Freelance cultural researcher (London, UK) *Moderator:* Natalia Grincheva

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Seeking support for a project to connect researchers
by Ayushi Tandon 21 Apr '20

21 Apr '20

Hi all, I am writing this email seeking support for a project started by a senior fellow of mine Mohamed El-Moghazi <https://www.ptc.org/2017/08/ptc-young-scholars-where-are-they-now-dr-mohame…>. He is working towards a project called Global Telecom Policy Research Network (GTPRN). We met early this year (at PTC 2020 conference) and felt a need for a network connecting researchers working in the broad space of telecommunications (sociotechnical systems, ICT4D, social media, media ethics, policy, IT and people), especially where opportunities could be shared on a single platform. Prime motivation is that students from Indian subcontinent and Africa, many times miss out on the latest development in the field (because of paywall), application for funding, applying for phd/ post doctoral and other research opportunities, entrepreneurship funding, grants and other opportunities. Taking this agenda forward there is a registered website https://gtprn.org <https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsecure-we…>. We have drafted the basics of the first newsletter and would be great if we could make some announcements on your part in the newsletter. The main objectives of GTPRN are to connect researchers around the world and to align the goals of telecom policy conferences, centers, educational departments, scholars and students. It also aims to provide updates on timely news of importance, job announcements, and most importantly to exchange briefs about our research activities though the GTPRN website and newsletter. We are looking forward to any small piece of opinion or news to be included in our 1st newsletter on the 1st of May. Thanks -- Ayushi Tandon PhD Candidate | Information Systems Area ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- D-29 | R-33 Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad - 380015 M: 8008900319 | Land phone: (079) 6632 2933

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COVID-19 seminar #1: Professor Priscilla Wald, Duke University
by Thao Phan 20 Apr '20

20 Apr '20

*COVID-19 Seminar #1: Professor Priscilla Wald, Duke University* https://priscillawald-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 28th April, 10am - 11:30am (Australian Eastern Standard Time, GMT+10) *Title:* Contagion: COVID-19, the Outbreak Narrative, and Why We Need to Change the Story *Abstract:* COVID-19 is the name of a pathogen—a disease-causing microbe—but if it is a “newly emerging infection,” it is also a newly emerging, though familiar, story: the latest version of “the outbreak narrative.” Accounts of newly surfacing diseases appeared in scientific publications and the mainstream media in the Global North with increasing frequency following the introduction of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the mid-1980s. They put the vocabulary of disease outbreaks into circulation, and they introduced the concept of "emerging infections." The repetition of particular phrases, images and story lines produced a formula that quickly became conventional as it formed the plot of the popular novels and films in the mid-1990s. These stories have consequences. As they disseminate information, they affect survival rates and contagion routes. They promote or mitigate the stigmatizing of individuals, groups, populations, spaces and locales (regional and global), behaviors and lifestyles, and they change economies. They also influence how both scientists and the lay public understand the nature and consequences of infection, how we imagine the threat and why we react so fearfully, and which problems merit our attention and resources. *About the speaker:* Priscilla Wald is R. Florence Brinkley Professor of English and Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University. She is the author of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative (Duke University 2008). *Watch the seminar:* Seminar will be available to stream on YouTube live. Access using the live link: https://youtu.be/eJsN8Ym85y4 Q&A with the speaker to follow. To send questions/participate in the chat, you'll need to sign-in using a YouTube account <https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-comment-on-youtube?r=AU&IR=T>.

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VIDEO: ‘A Global Perspective on Regional Accessibility’ webinar
by Joly MacFie 18 Apr '20

18 Apr '20

A wide ranging discussion with participants from Japan, Canada, Kenya, and Australia. Topics included, as might be expected, remote participation prospects for GAAD <https://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/>, coming up on May 21. Note that the link to download text on the Diamond event page is currently broken (goes to a previous webinar), but I made a pdf <https://isoc.live/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/A-Global-Perspective-on-Region…> which is good. ISOC Live posted: "Diamond have posted the recording of their April 16 2020 webinar ' A Global Perspective on Regional Accessibility'. A panel of experts from around the world gathered to discuss accessibility challenges and how various countries address them, moderated by " [image: YouTube] <https://youtu.be/OFPtwJwfwJs>*Diamond <https://diamond.la/>* have posted the recording of their April 16 2020 webinar '* A Global Perspective on Regional Accessibility* <https://pages.diamond.la/en/webinars/a-global-perspective-on-regional-acces…>'. A panel of experts from around the world gathered to discuss accessibility challenges and how various countries address them, moderated by a co-founder of *Global Accessibility Awareness Day* <https://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/>. Panelists: *Makoto Ueki*, Infoaxia (Japan); *Irene Mbari-Kirika*, inABLE, (Kenya); *Patrick Dunphy*, CBC Radio (Canada); *Charlii Parker*, Vision Australia (Australia). Moderator: *Joe Devon*, Diamond. *YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/OFPtwJwfwJs <https://youtu.be/OFPtwJwfwJs>* *TRANSCRIPT: **pdf <https://isoc.live/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/A-Global-Perspective-on-Region…> | txt <https://isoc.live/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/A-Global-Perspective-on-Region…>* *TWITTER: Diamond + #a11y <http://bit.ly/diamonda11y>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/11981/ - -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Content Analysis of Public Facebook Groups
by Jenkins, Joshua 16 Apr '20

16 Apr '20

Hi all, I am a doctoral student in NYC writing my dissertation proposal. One component of my project is nonparticipant observation and analysis of a public Facebook group for teachers. If you have research similar to this you can recommend, I would really appreciate it! Best, Josh -- Joshua Jenkins Ed.D. Student Department of Curriculum and Teaching Teachers College, Columbia University Pronouns: he/him

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Ask for Recommended Studies on closed facebook groups
by basma elmahdy 16 Apr '20

16 Apr '20

Hi Network, I hope you are doing well and healthy. I am an early-career researcher from Egypt. My focus is the gender media studies. As I work on my PhD proposal, I wonder if you can recommend papers as examples for best research practices related to closed Facebook groups. Any leads are much appreciated Sincerely, Basma

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Affordances, features and social support survey scales
by yeshuad＠bgu.ac.il 16 Apr '20

16 Apr '20

Hi there, I’m currently running a research in which we build online communities of support. Does anyone know about existing survey scales that measure users’ perception of the way technology affords social support or the way different features enable or constrain social support exchange in online communities? Thanks so much, Daphna ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Daphna Yeshua-Katz, Ph.D. Department of Communication Studies Ben-Gurion University of the Negev ד״ר דפנה ישועה-כ״ץ המחלקה לתקשורת הפקולטה למדעי הרוח והחברה yeshuad(a)bgu.ac.il Tel:+972-8-6479017 www.daphnayeshuakatz.com

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