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#confinedverses: a project by POSTDATA "Poetry Standardization and Linked Open Data"
by LEYRE LEGUINA CASAS 16 Apr '20

16 Apr '20

Dear all, In these days of confinement, poetry and music are the best company. Social networks are dazzling with creativity, thanks to the poems and songs shared by recognized and anonymous individuals about their day to day experiences in confinement. The POSTDATA "Poetry Standardization and Linked Open Data" team, is compiling all these poems and lyrics to give testimony of this collective experience, and make them available to all, in order to make the quarantine more bearable. Join our initiative and help us create this compilation about confinement. Send us your original poem or song, in Spanish or English, through this link: #confinedverses<https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=SHBYtXCgrUO2VCCjHpstmQV…> All the poems and lyrics we collect will be available in the POSTDATA github: https://github.com/linhd-postdata/confinaversos For more information, please visit our website: http://postdata.linhd.uned.es/confinedverses/ We hope you enjoy it! Best regards, stay safe, The POSTDATA Team ------------- POSTDATA “Poetry Standardization and Linked Open Data”: This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement Nº [679528]). All contributed poems retain their individual copyright but are released to the public on a GitHub repository under the terms of a CC-BY 4.0 license. Leire Leguina R&D Project Manager POSTDATA – Poetry Standardization and Linked Open Data LINHD - Laboratorio de Innovación en Humanidades Digitales Communications and Control Systems Deparment School of Computer Science - UNED Juan del Rosal, 16 28040 MADRID tel. +34 913988239 www.linhduned.es<http://www.linhduned.es> www.postdata.uned.es<http://www.postdata.uned.es> AVISO LEGAL. Este mensaje puede contener información reservada y confidencial. Si usted no es el destinatario no está autorizado a copiar, reproducir o distribuir este mensaje ni su contenido. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, le rogamos que lo notifique al remitente. Le informamos de que sus datos personales, que puedan constar en este mensaje, serán tratados en calidad de responsable de tratamiento por la UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA (UNED) c/ Bravo Murillo, 38, 28015-MADRID-, con la finalidad de mantener el contacto con usted. La base jurídica que legitima este tratamiento, será su consentimiento, el interés legítimo o la necesidad para gestionar una relación contractual o similar. En cualquier momento podrá ejercer sus derechos de acceso, rectificación, supresión, oposición, limitación al tratamiento o portabilidad de los datos, ante la UNED, Departamento de Política Jurídica de Seguridad de la Información<https://www.uned.es/dpj>, o a través de la Sede electrónica<https://sede.uned.es/> de la Universidad. Para más información visite nuestra Política de Privacidad<https://descargas.uned.es/publico/pdf/Politica_privacidad_UNED.pdf>.

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#confinedverses: a project by POSTDATA "Poetry Standardization and Linked Open Data"
by LEYRE LEGUINA CASAS 15 Apr '20

15 Apr '20

Dear all, In these days of confinement, poetry and music are the best company. Social networks are dazzling with creativity, thanks to the poems and songs shared by recognized and anonymous individuals about their day to day experiences in confinement. The POSTDATA "Poetry Standardization and Linked Open Data" team, is compiling all these poems and lyrics to give testimony of this collective experience, and make them available to all, in order to make the quarantine more bearable. Join our initiative and help us create this compilation about confinement. Send us your original poem or song, in Spanish or English, through this link: #confinedverses<https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=SHBYtXCgrUO2VCCjHpstmQV…> All the poems and lyrics we collect will be available in the POSTDATA github: https://github.com/linhd-postdata/confinaversos For more information, please visit our website: http://postdata.linhd.uned.es/confinedverses/ We hope you enjoy it! Best regards, stay safe, The POSTDATA Team ------------- POSTDATA “Poetry Standardization and Linked Open Data”: This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement Nº [679528]). All contributed poems retain their individual copyright but are released to the public on a GitHub repository under the terms of a CC-BY 4.0 license. Leire Leguina R&D Project Manager POSTDATA – Poetry Standardization and Linked Open Data LINHD - Laboratorio de Innovación en Humanidades Digitales Communications and Control Systems Deparment School of Computer Science - UNED Juan del Rosal, 16 28040 MADRID tel. +34 913988239 www.linhduned.es<http://www.linhduned.es> www.postdata.uned.es<http://www.postdata.uned.es> AVISO LEGAL. Este mensaje puede contener información reservada y confidencial. Si usted no es el destinatario no está autorizado a copiar, reproducir o distribuir este mensaje ni su contenido. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, le rogamos que lo notifique al remitente. Le informamos de que sus datos personales, que puedan constar en este mensaje, serán tratados en calidad de responsable de tratamiento por la UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA (UNED) c/ Bravo Murillo, 38, 28015-MADRID-, con la finalidad de mantener el contacto con usted. La base jurídica que legitima este tratamiento, será su consentimiento, el interés legítimo o la necesidad para gestionar una relación contractual o similar. En cualquier momento podrá ejercer sus derechos de acceso, rectificación, supresión, oposición, limitación al tratamiento o portabilidad de los datos, ante la UNED, Departamento de Política Jurídica de Seguridad de la Información<https://www.uned.es/dpj>, o a través de la Sede electrónica<https://sede.uned.es/> de la Universidad. Para más información visite nuestra Política de Privacidad<https://descargas.uned.es/publico/pdf/Politica_privacidad_UNED.pdf>.

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Research funds related to Central Asia/ Southeast Asia
by Mergen 15 Apr '20

15 Apr '20

Dear AIR-L community, Greetings! It would be great to collaborate with someone on policy research grants related to Central Asia/ Eurasia. I also have done research on Thailand and currently working with an Indonesia-based university, and completed a PhD in public policy at NUS (Singapore). My research areas are corruption policy, economic diversification, and ICT & E-government. Would be great to work on research projects! Best regards, Mergen -- Regards, Mergen Dyussenov, *Deputy Director at the Institute of Management,* *Lecturer (Public policy analysis, Research methods & design)The Academy of Public Administration under the President of Kazakhstan* PhD Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (NUS 2019), Singapore Cell phone: +7 707 1539833

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Deadline Extension Special Issue on "Digital Capitalism"
by Aitor Jimenez Gonzalez 15 Apr '20

15 Apr '20

Dear all, Due to the current global disruptions, we've agreed to extend our call for abstracts on 'Digital Capitalism' for Teknokultura. Revista de Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales (June-December 2020) to Mon 14th May 2020. All other details remain as before, the full text of the call can be found at: https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/announcement/view/333 Best regards, stay safe César Rendueles y Aitor Jiménez (The Editors) CFP on DIGITAL CAPITALISM for TEKNOKULTURA (June-December 2020) 2020-01-12 Thematic issue in Digital Capitalism Coordinators: Aitor Jiménez (University of Auckland) & César Rendueles (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Vol 17 (2) June-December 2020[linea1.jpg] More than 20 years have passed since Daniel Schiller popularized the concept of Digital Capitalism. Since then, the digital economy has become one of the pillars of advanced economies. Few, beyond the followers of science fiction, could have predicted the current scenario. There are still no flying cars or cyborgs in the streets. But, as in Blade Runner, gigantic global corporations reign in cyberspace (and outside of it). Its hegemony extends from communications to clouding, through commerce, transport, hospitality or leisure. The great digital monopolies are present in the lives of the inhabitants both in the North and in the Global South. Until 2018 (the year when the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke out) the large digital corporations enjoyed the benefit of the doubt from governments and authorities and the approval of the users. In a short period of time, digital monopolies forever transformed the real estate market in cities such as Madrid or Paris. The urban transport sector and the labour regime of hundreds of millions of workers, not to mention the use and management of private data. But after a series of scandals and judicial setbacks associated with the criminal practices of large corporations such as Google or Facebook, governments and international institutions have agreed to point out the dangers associated with this excessive corporate power or ‘digital dominance’. The ILO and the OECD have remarked how the global labour market is at the verge of a huge transition, which if not handled with caution can lead to the disappearance of hundreds of millions of jobs. The European Union has marked as one of its priorities to recover digital sovereignty for its member countries, as well as to shield, from the Silicon Valley’s monopolistic capitalist offensive. The United States Congress, concerned about the overwhelming power of tech companies, is inquiring the top tech corporations to understand ‘the degree to which these intermediaries enjoy market power, how they are using that market power, whether they are using their market power in ways that have harmed consumers and competition, and how Congress should respond.’ 2020 will be a turning point in the formulation of digital capitalism. For some like Morozov, we are at the door of a digital neofeudalism with different domain spheres dependent of massive powers. Others, more optimistic, such as Lina Khan or Frank Pasquale, believe that digital capitalism can be controlled with the appropriate institutional and regulatory frameworks. Others, as Aaron Bastani or Trebor Scholz, highlight the emancipatory and even revolutionary potential of current digital tools and platforms. Can you imagine an Uber run and controlled by workers? What if we socialise Google? 2018, with the Cambridge Analytica scandal, was the year of the loss of the innocence of digital platforms. 2019 the year of the great declarations of the corporations (among others those of Uber, Google or Facebook) and of the awareness of the political authorities. 2020 may be the year in which digital capitalism is reformulated (in one direction or another). For this reason we call the participation to a thematic issue of Teknokultura. Journal of Digital Culture and Social Movements dedicated to digital capitalism. In this number we seek for contributions from academics and activists looking at digital capitalism, its many problems and perhaps its multiple solutions. Contributions are invited from a range of topics and perspectives, including, but not restricted to: * Digital Sociology * Platform Politics * Law and algorithmic governmentality * Biopolitics, sexism and racism * Digital Anthropology * Digital Capitalism’s Political Economy * Digital Welfare State We also are delighted to extend this call to workers, activists and political and social organizers who, from institutions, unions or social organizations are dealing with digital capitalism. Final drafts will be due April 15, 2020. Questions and topic inquiries for this thematic issue can be directed to the guest editors Aitor Jiménez and César Rendueles at aitor(a)auckland.ac.nz<mailto:aitor@auckland.ac.nz>. Articles may be submitted in Spanish, English or Portuguese. Articles must be original and must not have been previously published or be under consideration by other journals or publication. The author guidelines are available on the website at https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/about/submissions, and the section policies at https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/politicasecciones If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact the guest editors at: aitor(a)auckland.ac.nz ?

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Recruiting Election Data Coders
by Stuart Shulman 14 Apr '20

14 Apr '20

We are recruiting coders (human annotators) to label US election data in a pilot study using DiscoverText. At this time, the remuneration is only free software and access to interesting Canadian and US election data for your own scholarly research. If the project is funded, this will convert into paying work over the summer and fall at a rate of $15/hour for annotators and $25/hour for team leaders. Increments of coding are as short as 5-10 minutes and as long as 30-45 minutes. Applicants must have a personal Twitter account created prior to January 1, 2018. To apply, please send me an email with your Twitter handle and a CV. The project is equal parts entertaining, educational, encouraging, and disturbing. ~Stu Dr. Stu ShulmanU.S. Soccer Federation C-Licensed Coach Valeo FC & Capacidad Volunteer Coach @stuartwshulman

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Perception at the End of the World, or How Not to Play Video Games: out now, open access
by Joanna Zylinska 14 Apr '20

14 Apr '20

Dear All, Not without some degree of apprehension, I thought I’d share this project titled /Perception at the End of the World, or How Not to Play Video Games/, which has just come out in the Flugschriften series. Engaging with post-apocalyptic landscapes, image-making and ways in which we see the world, it’s something I’ve been working on for a while now, but its publication has coincided with the current set of events. It takes the form of an artbook-style pamphlet containing an essay and a series of images, and features design by the brilliant Felipe Mancheno. /“Both embracing and eliding the experience of mediation, [video game environments stage] worldliness for us as a mobile task to explore and engage with, with our eyes, hands, brains, and bodies all participating in seeing and/as doing… Life can thus also be redescribed as an ongoing process of navigating between cinema and photography, with image-making becoming a mode of world-making, for gamers and non-gamers alike.” /(Joanna Zylinska, from /Perception at the End of the World/) The pamphlet can be downloaded from here: https://flugschriften.com/2020/04/10/perception-at-the-end-of-the-world-by-… <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflugschri…> Edited by Dominic Pettman (New School) and Carla Nappi (Pittsburgh), /Flugschriften /rekindles the long tradition of 16th-century pamphlets – or ‘flying writings’ – giving heterodox, experimental, challenging writings a pair of wings with which to find like-minded readers. /Flugschriften /publishes short, sharp shocks to the system – whether this be the political system, literary system, academic system, or human nervous system. Other titles in the series include Vilém Flusser on The Holy See, Steven Shaviro on Tierra Whack, and the collectively edited Dispatches from the Institute of Incoherent Geography. More at: https://flugschriften.com/ <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fflugschri…> Best, Joanna -- Professor Joanna Zylinska Co-Head of Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Goldsmiths, University of London http://www.joannazylinska.net

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Speaker on Deception - Ade Rudd "Clothing Naked Villainy: the Dark Art of Deception"
by Dr. Emma Briant 14 Apr '20

14 Apr '20

Dear Colleagues, I am delighted to be able to announce a new speaker who will be giving a very interesting talk this *Thursday 16th April at 1.30 Eastern time, *for students of my Human Rights Program course at Bard College *'Propaganda: Dark Arts in a Digital Age' *- the talk will be open to interested colleagues such as yourselves. *Ade Rudd *will be giving an hour long talk titled: *"Clothing Naked Villainy: the Dark Art of Deception" *which will go into some of the theory and some examples of deception in war. It will be followed by a Q&A. Ade Rudd is an expert on deception from the United Kingdom and was a ‘Behaviour Change Analyst’ and Warrant Officer (equivalent to Master Sergeant in US) in UK Defence Psychological Operations co authoring NATO PsyOps, Deception and Info Ops doctrine. Gaining extensive experience ‘in Ukraine, the Baltic States, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Iraq, and Afghanistan’ from 1993 until 2017. Since leaving military service he has worked as a contractor for several firms including providing scenario workshops for training delivered by SCL the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, and now runs his own firm, Blekking Strategic Communications. The details for the Zoom for this talk are as follows below. Due to high demand, I am hoping to record it and make it available online too in case anyone is unable to attend. Looking forward to welcoming you to the lecture on Thursday. Best of health, Dr Emma Briant Emma Briant is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Talk on Deception by Ade Rudd - 'Clothing Naked Villainy' Time: Apr 16, 2020 01:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://bard.zoom.us/j/97059969860 Meeting ID: 970 5996 9860 One tap mobile +13126266799,,97059969860# US (Chicago) +16465588656,,97059969860# US (New York) Dial by your location +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 253 215 8782 US +1 301 715 8592 US +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 9128 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 970 5996 9860 Find your local number: https://bard.zoom.us/u/agAV1oboC -- Dr Emma L Briant Independent Researcher/Author/Analyst Associate Researcher at Human Rights Program Bard College, Annandale on Hudson New York Website: www.emma-briant.co.uk Author of: *Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change *from Manchester University Press Co-Author of: *Bad News for Refugees* with Prof. Greg Philo and Dr. Pauline Donald from Pluto Press. Follow me on Twitter @emmalbriant <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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Final review reminder
by Kylie Jarrett 14 Apr '20

14 Apr '20

Hi all, We have a lot of reviews for the 2020 conference still pending and today is the very last day to get them in so this is your last reminder. If you are not sure if you have reviews to do, please login to conftool - https://www.conftool.org/aoir2020/index.php?page=login - and check the Enter and Edit Reviews section (the second field). Your reviews will be listed there. We really do appreciate you all taking the time to complete these, especially in these difficult circumstances. Thanks everyone. Dr. Kylie Jarrett Head of Department/Associate Professor Department of Media Studies Maynooth University, Maynooth, Co. Kildare Ireland Author: Feminism, Labour, and Digital Media: The Digital Housewife Co-author: NSFW: Sex, Humor and Risk in Social Media Google and the Culture of Search

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General Consensus on the Journal Sustainability
by Andrew Klobucar 13 Apr '20

13 Apr '20

Dear Aoir List, As many on this list likely know, the journal Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050; CODEN: SUSTDE) is published by MDPI, a company that seems to be at the heart of the ongoing debate over the ethics of publishing with Open Access. My question here is to determine whether some final verdict on whether the journal is considered predatory and thus to be low ranked in social science libraries. It’s editorial board seems strong, and many of the articles I’ve read through are well considered. Others not so. Any opinions, views? Best, Andrew Klobucar, Ph.D. Associate Professor, NJIT,

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SoLAR Webinar: Analyzing Learning and Teaching through the Lens of Networks with Dr Sasha Poquet and Dr Bodong Chen
by Vitomir Kovanovic 13 Apr '20

13 Apr '20

Hi all, It is my pleasure to invite you to our April SoLAR Webinar "Analyzing Learning and Teaching through the Lens of Networks" presented by Dr Sasha Poquet from the University of South Australia, Australia, and Dr Bodong Chen from the University of Minnesota, USA. To register, go to https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/analyzing-learning-and-teaching-through-the… Time and date: Mon April 20, 2020, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Eastern US time (1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Pacific US time, 9:30 PM - 10:30 PM London, UK time) Location: Zoom (meeting URL provided in the registration email) (Also, make sure you follow SoLAR's Eventbrite page<https://www.eventbrite.com.au/o/society-for-learning-analytics-research-sol…> to get updates for the future events). We are looking forward to seeing you at the webinar! Kind regards, Vitomir Analyzing Learning and Teaching through the Lens of Networks Networks is a popular metaphor we use to make sense of the world. Networks provide a powerful way to think about a variety of phenomena from economic and political interdependencies among countries, interactions between humans in local communities, and to protein interactions in drug development. In education, networks give ways to describe human relationships, neural activities in brains, technology-mediated interactions, language development, discourse patterns, etc. The common use of networks to depict these phenomena is unsurprising given the variety of educational theories and approaches that are deeply committed to a networked view of learning. Compatible with this view, network analysis is applied as a method for understanding learning and connections involved in learning. This webinar will explore the conceptual, methodological, and practical use of networks in learning analytics by presenting examples from real-world learning and teaching scenarios that cover the following areas. First, in learning analytics networks are a powerful tool to visually represent connections of all sorts in ways that are straightforward for humans to act upon. Second, network analysis offers a set of metrics that are useful for characterising and assessing various dimensions of learning. Third, the modelling of networks can help to develop explanatory theories about complex learning processes. We will present case studies in each area to demonstrate the utility of networks in learning analytics. By doing so, we argue for a wider conception of learning as a networked phenomenon and call for future learning analytics work in this area. Dr Sasha Poquet Sasha Poquet is a researcher at the Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning (C3L), University of South Australia. Sasha uses learning analytics to understand learner networks form and how peers influence each other in digitally-mediated communication. Associate Professor Bodong Chen Bodong Chen is an associate professor and Bonnie Westby Huebner Chair in Education and Technology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. His research is focused on the design of digital environments and analytics for collaborative learning. At the University of Minnesota, he co-directs a newly formed Learning Informatics Lab and teaches Applied Network Analysis in Education and Learning Analytics.

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