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JOB CALL: postdoctoral socio-legal research scientists working on trust and technology
by Balazs Bodo 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING The Institute for Information Law (www.ivir.nl ) at the University of Amsterdam is looking for a postdoctoral socio-legal research scientist *Job description* As a research scientist, you’ll be working on the social and institutional aspects of trust in and by technological systems. Multiple technologies emerged to produce trust (such as global reputation systems, (self-sovereign) identity systems), or minimize the need for trust (DLTs). Trust, as produced by technical systems has many possible sources: strong cryptography, censorship resistance through decentralization, good governance, or legal legibility, certainty and compliance. Some of these trust sources, like technology governance and regulation, can complement each other. Others, such as compliance and decentralization, seem to be in contradiction. As a social scientist, you will be working with legal scholars on answering the following two questions at the intersection of trust and technology: - How do (decentralized) technologies produce trust or minimize the need for trust? - What makes these systems trustworthy? You will answer these questions by studying various aspects of trust and trustworthiness in technological contexts. In particular you will: - conduct empirical research among technology developers on the trustworthiness of technology: - design and implement surveys, and conduct qualitative analysis on how technology developers see the trustworthiness of technology they build and operate, and how they implement and balance different sources of trust in technological systems (system design, governance, legal compliance, etc.); - conduct empirical research among technology users on the topic of trust: - design and implement surveys among users of blockchain based systems on the issue of trust and trustworthiness; - conduct a qualitative analysis of the discourses around trust and DLTs; - work on the problem of institutional embeddedness of decentralized technical systems: - conduct empirical research on how existing societal stakeholders (such as businesses, the media, various professional groups, regulators, policymakers) see the trustworthiness of decentralized technologies, and their ability to produce trust; - study the institutional change that may be necessary to better incorporate technical trust producers in systems of accountability and oversight; - work with legal scholars on new policy proposals aimed at building trust in decentralized technologies, and between users of such systems; - contribute to the development of research methodology and infrastructure; - organize workshops to discuss and disseminate the research findings. *Requirements* Candidates are expected to meet the following requirements. You have: - an interest in researching social diffusion/application/regulation of digital technologies; - a background in one or more of the following disciplines: - Sociology; - Economics; - Political Science - Computer Science, - Media studies with special focus on sociology of organizations, sociology or economics of innovation, or science and technology studies; IVIR is the host institution of the Blockchain & Society Policy Research Lab (https://blockchain-society.science/) , founded in 2018 with the help of an ERC starting Grant by Dr Balázs Bodó. The work of the Lab focuses on the regulatory challenges around the latest iteration of decentralized technologies, such as blockchains and DLTs. We use the term ‘blockchain technology’ as a placeholder concept for technological ordering regimes, which, among others, promise impartial, automated, and ex-ante enforcement of technology-encoded rules and norms, and thus have the potential to enable new forms of trust-dependent activities. While blockchain technologies go through the cycles of hypes and busts, the ongoing innovation in this domain produces often highly contentious, and increasingly plausible visions of how our social, political, economic relationships could be re-organized. Please apply here: https://www.uva.nl/en/content/vacancies/2020/02/20-080-postdoctoral-socio-l… ---------------------------------------- Balázs Bodó, PhD Associate Professor Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam http://www.ivir.nl/ Blockchain & Society Policy Research Lab (funded by an ERC Starting Grant) https://blockchain-society.science/ Latest publications: Bodó, B. (2019). Selling News to Audiences – A Qualitative Inquiry into the Emerging Logics of Algorithmic News Personalization in European Quality News Media. Digital Journalism. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2019.1624185 Bodó, B., & Giannopoulou, A. (2019). The logics of technology decentralization: the case of Distributed Ledger Technologies. In M. Ragnedda, & G. Destefanis (Eds.), Blockchain and Web 3.0: Social, Economic, and Technological Challenges Routledge. Bodó, B., & van de Velde, R. N. (2019). Big Data & Data Science in information law and policy research. In H. Van den Bulck, M. Puppis, K. Donders, & L. Van Audenhove (Eds.), Palgrave Handbook of Methods for Media Policy Research (pp. 347-366). Palgrave Macmillan

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Patricia G. Lange's new book on Youtube
by Ilana Gershon 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

Dear Colleagues, I thought you might like to know that Jan English-Lueck's interview with Patricia Lange is now up on CaMP anthropology blog. You can read about Patricia's new book, Thanks for Watching: An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on Youtube here: <https://campanthropology.org/>https://campanthropology.org/ Best, Ilana

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New book: Lessons from Trump's Political Communication. How to Dominate the Media Environment
by Marco Morini 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

Dear all, I’m delighted to share details of my new book: LESSONS FROM TRUMP’S POLITICAL COMMUNICATION. HOW TO DOMINATE THE MEDIA ENVIRONMENT by Marco Morini Available from https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030390099 *About the book:* This book explores Donald Trump’s political communication as a candidate and in the first two years in office. The 45th US President is dominating the media system and 'building the agenda' through the combined action of five strategies. He disintermediates his communication and manufactures a permanent campaign climate based on strong and inflammatory language to attract a constant and decisive media coverage. In disarticulating old-style political rhetoric, he privileges emotions over contents, slogans above thought. Trump’s jokes, mockeries and distinct rhetoric – showing similarities to rhetorical strategies of Nazis during the 1930s – help him impersonate the populist ‘everyday man’ who fights against the elites. His dominance of the news cycle also reflects a desire for higher TV ratings and Web traffic numbers. Essentially, Trump has critically exploited the media’s news logics and taken advantage of the American public's lack of trust in journalism. *Contents:* Introduction Chapter 1: Disintermediator-in-Chief Chapter 2: The Permanent Campaigner Chapter 3: The Clowning Performer Chapter 4: The Fascist Rhetor, the Incendiary Populist Chapter 5: Exploiting the Media Ecosystem ** *About the author* *Marco Morini* is Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy. Previously, he was Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre at the European University Institute, Research Fellow at the University of Padova, Assistant Professor in Political Science at the International University of Sarajevo, and Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Sociology at Macquarie University. His main research interests are political communication, comparative politics, and US Politics.

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Reminder: LIVE TODAY Dr Jessa Lingel discussion about The craigslist ethic: A web 1.0 vision of online democracy
by Eleanor Marchant 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

Morning everyone! This is just a reminder that we will be hosting a seminar series discussion that I personally am extremely excited about today at 2pm GMT. Dr Jessa Lingel, Assistant Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication will be talking about her new book, "an internet for the people: the politics and promise of craigslist". It will be held live online on Zoom at 2pm GMT / 10am EST. Details about how to join can be found here: https://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk/the-craigslist-ethic-a-web-1-0-vision-of-onli… It's part of a new global seminar series we're doing here at the Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy at the University of Oxford, which uses digital technology to bring speakers who are spread out all over the world and allows anyone to watch and participate. And it has the added benefit of helping to minimize exposure to Covid-19 that might come with in-person seminars. And Jessa will be answering any questions you have about craigslist and the future of the internet live during the discussion! For a bit more detail about what to expect, here's an abstract of her talk: A growing number of tech insiders are raising doubts about the long term consequences of the mainstream internet, in terms of individual mental health as well as national democracy. The need for a more ethical internet has led some to embrace sci fi imaginings and others to reject digital media altogether. This talk considers the vision of a single platform as instructive for thinking about the future of the web: craigslist. Over its 22 year history, craigslist has grown into a multi-faceted website for local exchanges, which can include buying, selling, hiring, apartment seeking, dating or simply ranting about the neighborhood. At once outdated and highly relevant, easy to use and easy to overlook, craigslist has mostly stayed the same while the web around it has changed, becoming less open and more profit driven. The design decisions and user policies governing craigslist give shape to particular a form of politics, and examining these rules and norms reveals what we stand to lose if the web continues to become less open, more homogenous and geared towards sleek professionalism over messy serendipity. Hope to see some of you there! [https://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/GSS-Promo-Jessa-Li…]<https://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk/the-craigslist-ethic-a-web-1-0-vision-of-onli…> Upcoming Virtual Seminar Series: Jessa Lingel on The craigslist ethic: A web 1.0 vision of online democracy - The Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP)<https://pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk/the-craigslist-ethic-a-web-1-0-vision-of-onli…> For the next iteration of our Global Virtual Seminar Series, we are delighted to welcome: Jessa Lingel, Associate Professor of Communication, University of Pennsylvania pcmlp.socleg.ox.ac.uk ELEANOR R MARCHANT PHD ConflictNET<https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-and-subject-groups/politics-and-practice-…> Postdoctoral Fellow Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy Centre for Socio-Legal Studies University of Oxford Tw: @ermarchant<https://twitter.com/ermarchant> | www.eleanormarchant.me<http://www.eleanormarchant.me>

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Fully funded PhD on urban security - Erasmus University Rotterdam
by Daniel Trottier 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

Fully funded PhD on urban security, Erasmus University Rotterdam (applications due 31st March): https://www.academictransfer.com/en/290282/phd-candidate-urban-security-pro… PhD Candidate – Urban Security Processes (1.0 FTE) The Department of Media and Communication and the Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture (ERMeCC) are looking for a PhD Candidate – Urban Security Processes (f/m, 1.0 FTE) in Media and Communication. JOB DESCRIPTION We are looking for a highly motivated PhD Candidate who seeks to conduct their PhD research in the context of a research project funded by the European Commission on urban security policies and technological change. As a PhD Candidate of the Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture (ERMeCC), you will have ample opportunity to collaborate with renowned academics with an international and interdisciplinary approach. A Master’s degree in the Social Sciences is required, as well as wide-ranging knowledge of and affinity for security studies, public policy and design thinking. In addition to an understanding of the latest developments in the field, the candidate should possess an affinity for collaboration with researchers and other stakeholders. Candidates a proven interest in juvenile delinquency, radicalisation, security in public spaces, or trafficking & organised crime are preferred. Research and management duties - Conducting PhD research within the framework of the project; - Contributing to the data collection and data analysis of the project; - Publishing and presenting research results in the form of deliverable reports, as well as articles in international peer reviewed journals and papers at international conferences; - Writing a dissertation; - Defending the dissertation to complete the doctoral degree; - Participating and assisting in the organisation of project meetings, workshops and other knowledge utilisation activities - Performing organisational tasks in the context of the project, in particular with regard to the task of the EUR within the project; - Taking part in seminars, workshops, etc. that are organised by the Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture (ERMeCC) as well as the research schools and scholarly associations of which ERMeCC is part. The development of teaching skills and teaching activities will be considered at a later stage of the PhD in discussion with the candidate and the supervisors. REQUIREMENTS - A Master’s degree in the Social Sciences, preferably a research master; - Wide-ranging knowledge of and affinity with design thinking, urban security and knowledge co-creation with stakeholders; - Proven affinity for empirical research, as evidenced by your master’s thesis, publications, research plans and other projects; - Organisational experience and skills; - Proficiency in spoken and written English. Non-English speakers have to meet the C1-standards of the Common European Framework (CEF). - Didactic potential. Teaching experience is considered an advantage; - A willingness to develop knowledge and skills in various disciplines and to increase the ability to teach related subjects within the faculty’s degree programme; - Proficiency in spoken and written Dutch is optional, but preferred. CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT Employment starts June 1, 2020, pending finalisation of grant agreement. The initial contract will be running for a term of 1,5 years, which - depending on performance – will be extended with a second term of 2,5 years. The conditions of employment correspond with the “CAO Nederlandse Universiteiten” (CAO NU). For the job of PhD Candidate (Promovendus) the salary amounts to a maximum of € 2.972,- (grade P) gross per month on a 38 hour per week contract. The EUR has attractive employment conditions, which include a holiday allowance of 8.0%, an end-of-year bonus of 8.3% and 41 annual vacation days in case of a full workweek. EMPLOYER Erasmus University Rotterdam An internationally oriented melting-pot of talent with a high level of social engagement. That is Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). A Rotterdam-based university with 25,000 students and close to 2700 staff members, developing academic knowledge and skills which are infinitely applicable. Working at Erasmus University Rotterdam means working at an ambitious university that offers many opportunities for personal development and initiative. For more information about Erasmus University Rotterdam, visit www.eur.nl DEPARTMENT Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (ESHCC) The Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (ESHCC) offers education and research in the fields of Media and Communication, History, and Arts and Culture Studies. The faculty has more than 2000 students and over 200 employees. Media and Communication Department The Media and Communication Department is a dynamic, internationally oriented department within the ESHCC. The department offers five international degree programmes: the International Bachelor’s programme in Communication and Media (IBCoM), three international Master’s programmes in Media Studies (Media & Business, Media & Creative Industries, Media, Culture & Society) and the Research master in the Sociology of Culture, Media and the Arts. The department has close ties with the Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture (ERMeCC), the primary research institute at EUR in the field of Media, Communication and Culture. Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture (ERMeCC) The Erasmus Research Centre for Media, Communication and Culture (ERMeCC) is a vibrant, internationally oriented research centre within the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication which serves as the main base for researchers in Media, Communication and Culture at Erasmus. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Additional information about the vacancy can be obtained from dr. Daniel Trottier (trottier(a)eshcc.eur.nl) Application procedure Your cover letter should be accompanied by a letter of motivation of no more than 750 words, in which you explain what you consider to be the key concerns for design thinking applied to urban security and crime prevention initiatives and how you would approach this topic. It will be helpful to specifically address one or more of the following priority areas that are focal points in this project: juvenile delinquency, trafficking and organised crime, public spaces and radicalisation. Please also specify your motivation and abilities to work in the context of an EU project with a wide diversity of international partners and stakeholders in the security arena. The selection committee will invite a small number of candidates for an interview. Candidates may be asked to submit a more detailed research plan and/or give a presentation as part of the application procedure. To apply, please send your cover letter with your letter of motivation, your resume/CV, your publication list (if applicable), and the names and contact details of two referees, before March 31, 2020 by e-mail to vacancies(a)eshcc.eur.nl. Please mention “PhD Urban Security”. You should receive a confirmation mail within two weeks.

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WEBCAST TODAY: NYC School of Data 2020
by Joly MacFie 07 Mar '20

07 Mar '20

Happy Open Data Day! This year, as in many previous, the Internet Society New York Chapter are celebrating with BetaNYC. ISOC Live posted: "On Saturday March 7 2010 BetaNYC hosts NYC School of Data 2020 at CUNY School of Law in Queens. This event, held on International Open Data Day 2020, concludes the fourth annual NYC Open Data Week. NYC School of data is a community driven conference with " [image: nyc school of data l] <https://schoolofdata.nyc/>On *Saturday March 7 2010* BetaNYC hosts *NYC School of Data 2020 <https://schoolofdata.nyc/>* at CUNY School of Law in Queens. This event, held on *International Open Data Day 2020 <https://opendataday.org/>*, concludes the fourth annual *NYC Open Data Week* <https://www.open-data.nyc/>. NYC School of data is a community driven conference with a focus on open data, civic technology, and service design. Three of the many tracks will be webcast live via a partnership with the *Internet Society New York Chapter <https://isoc-ny.org>.* *LIVESTREAM: <https://isoc.live/nycsodata2020>https://isoc.live/nycsodata2020 <https://isoc.live/nycsodata2020>* *FULL SCHEDULE https://nycsodata20.sched.com/ <https://nycsodata20.sched.com/>* *TWITTER @NYCSoDat <http://bit.ly/38qpjCw>a* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/11870/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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WEBCAST TUESDAY: Community Engagement: The Legal Enforceability of Ethos’ Public Interest Commitment (PIC)
by Joly MacFie 06 Mar '20

06 Mar '20

There were several PIC-related questions at last weeks Community Engagement Webinar <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/orgcommunity>. Thus a full presentation. There is only 30 mins scheduled for this, so perhaps not that much time for discussion. I am told there will be another Community call next week. ISOC Live posted: "On Tuesday, March 3 2020, from 15:00–15:30 EST (20:00–20:30 UTC), Ethos Capital invites you to a webinar 'Community Engagement: The Legal Enforceability of Ethos’ Public Interest Commitment (PIC)'. Presenters will be Brian Cimbolic, General Counsel, PIR, " [image: livestream] <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/ethospic>On *Tuesday, March 3 2020*, from *15:00–15:30 EST* (20:00–20:30 UTC), *Ethos Capital <https://ethoscapital.com>* invites you to a webinar '*Community Engagement: The Legal Enforceability of Ethos’ Public Interest Commitment (PIC) <https://www.keypointsabout.org/events>*'. Presenters will be *Brian Cimbolic*, General Counsel, PIR, and *Allen Grogan*, Legal Advisor, Ethos Capital. The session will be webcast live on the *Internet Society Livestream Channel* <https://isoc.live>. *LIVESTREAM: http://livestream.com/internetsociety/ethospic <http://livestream.com/internetsociety/ethospic>* (open captions) *PARTICIPATE: https://pir.zoom.us/j/299610749 <https://pir.zoom.us/j/299610749>* (closed captions) *MORE INFO: https://www.keypointsabout.org/ <https://www.keypointsabout.org/>* *Permalink*: https://isoc.live/11839/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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JOURNAL OF DIGITAL WAR
by stevie docherty 06 Mar '20

06 Mar '20

We are delighted to announce the launch of the Journal of Digital War published by Palgrave Macmillan (Springer Nature). https://www.digital-war.org The Journal: Sees digital war as having gone mainstream. Pioneers agenda-setting dialogue on the waging, experiencing, and witnessing of contemporary warfare. Welcomes timely interventions from practitioners, scholars and students. Aims and Scope: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/journal/42984/authors/aims-scope Submit manuscripts here: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/journal/42984/authors/submission Special Issue proposals: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/journal/42984/authors/submitting-a-special-issu… All content is open access until end of 2021. For review content, contact our Reviews Editor: Ally McCrow-Young: ally.mccrowyoung(a)hum.ku.dk<mailto:ally.mccrowyoung@hum.ku.dk> Issue 1 contributors: https://www.digital-war.org/issue-1 ALGORITHMIC ANXIETIES: Trevor Paglen in conversation with Anthony Downey now published: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057%2Fs42984-020-00001-2 Follow us @DigitalWarJnl https://twitter.com/digitalwarjnl Enquiries: digitalwarjournal(a)gmail.com<mailto:digitalwarjournal@gmail.com>

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King's DDH Conference 2020 Loathing - Call for Papers now open
by Cobby Avaria, Roy 06 Mar '20

06 Mar '20

We are delighted to announce the Call for Papers for our annual PhD conference at the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London themed: 2020 LOATHING: DIGITAL TENSIONS, FRAGMENTATIONS AND POLARISATIONS Date: 29th May 2020 Location: Bush House, King’s College London, London Confirmed Speakers: Fernanda Bruno, Associate professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. CNPq Researcher. Director of the MediaLab.UFRJ. Jennifer Pybus, Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society, King's College London. This conference invites emerging scholars to productively explore the digital tensions which mark our contemporary lives, as any techno-optimism of the early digital age has given way to what we hypothesise as data-driven loathing. We invite a critical focus on these contradictory forces, wherein, for example, the promises of personalisation have led to the fragmentation of audiences and polarisation of politics; or, wherein digital distributed networks seem to have empowered platform enterprises like GAFA as much as new forms of bottom-up participation. How can we address the data granularity of our lives, not only across socio-cultural and political-economic processes, but in a new mediation and apprehension of our urban and environmental surroundings? Overall, we are interested in work that recognises the deep affect of our digital lives in a way that provokes both joy and possibility as well as anxiety and enervation. We invite contributions in the following areas: • Digital commons, data commons versus platform capitalism • Digital tools, platforms: what is enabled and/or constrained • Mediation and the (in)visibility of data • Diffusion of algorithmic power in smart objects and automated decision-making systems • The interplay between profiling and surveillance • Critical and theoretical approaches to understanding tension, fragmentation and polarisation Submission: 250 words abstract with a short academic bio sent to 2020Loathing(a)gmail.com<mailto:2020Loathing@gmail.com>. The required format is a Word document (.doc or .docx) saved as “SURNAME_2020L”. Abstract Submission Deadline: 27th March 2020 Notification of Acceptance: 17th April 2020 Conference Date: 29th May 2020 Conference Location: Bush House, King’s College London, London E-mail: 2020Loathing(a)gmail.com<mailto:2020Loathing@gmail.com> for any questions about submissions or the conference Please see more information on our website.<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewperspec…>

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FINAL CFP: Extraction: Tracing the Veins
by Taffel, Sy 05 Mar '20

05 Mar '20

Apologies for cross-listing FINAL CFP: Extraction: Tracing the veins A Virtual/nearly carbon neutral conference Massey University, New Zealand and Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands June 29 – July 10, 2020 The global appetite for large-scale resource extraction is insatiable. Extraction is the basis for contemporary capitalism, and for almost every commodity we engage with, use and even consume in everyday life. Like minerals coursing through veins deep in the earth and connecting in ways unseen from the surface, extraction provides a direct link between people, economy and planet, with deeply embedded connections—material, ideological and political. Extractive industries are also responsible for half of the world’s carbon emissions and more than 80% of biodiversity loss. Now, as the environmental costs become harder to ignore, we are seeing new actions to contest and reshape extractivism, and to consider post-extractive futures. From a ban on offshore oil and gas exploration in Aotearoa NZ, to industry-led sustainable mining initiatives, and to strikes and protests against mining and oil developments through the Americas, Asia, Pacific and Africa, extraction (and activism towards it) is reshaping people’s relationships with state and market institutions, with the land and soil, and with each other. Despite the centrality of extraction to contemporary life, Anthony Bebbington (2012) wrote a few years ago of ‘the relative invisibility of minerals, oil and gas in the canons of political ecology’. While the intervening years have seen important scholarship, the extractive industries, and processes of extractivism more broadly, continues to be a fertile space for further political ecology- driven exploration. In order to re-examine extraction and its contested place in contemporary capitalism, this event calls on participants to take up the theme of Extraction, which we understand in multiple senses: extraction as the material extraction of natural resources; as a mode of accumulation central to the histories and continuation of capitalism; and as a worldview in which nature is a resource to be commodified for human consumption and accumulation. We encourage scholarly critique as well as engagement with the multiple movements that confront extraction and the communities that are practicing and imagining different systems based on regeneration. In this nearly carbon neutral conference, we invite authors from a range of backgrounds and countries to present and collaborate virtually. The conference will take place over two weeks in June and July 2020. We welcome contributors who hail from a broad range of disciplines: sociologists, artists, engineers, environmental activists, geographers, development practitioners, biologists, economists, environmental managers, anthropologists, and industry representatives to name a few. We seek contributions that cross boundaries of social/natural sciences, and that connect local and global contextual analyses. Papers are invited to address, but are not limited to, the following themes: * Theorising extractivism. Considering the environmental histories and ongoing colonial character of extractive industries; the historic and contemporary global flows and connections of resources and power. This may include: Social reproduction and extractivism; feminist political ecology of extraction; racism and ethnic identity formation in extractivist projects and processes; the financialization of commodities and extractivism; extractivism and climate change. * The future of extractive industries. How are extractive industries changing and adapting to environmental, social, or competitive pressures; What are the possibilities for sustainable resource extraction?; of moving away from extractive industries?; do calls for the end of extractive industries ignore the imperial histories of these industries, their centrality to modern life (and indeed to the technologies by which this conference is possible) and the different potentialities that extraction produces – from the politics of resignation, to increasingly strident forms of nationalism, and discourses of (resource) curses. * New forms of extraction. Beyond the traditional extractive industries, how do other forms of resource extraction – sand, intensive agriculture, deep sea mining, data mining, even ‘renewable’ resources - help us to re-theorise extractivism and its centrality to capitalist relations? * Confronting extractivism. Movements by indigenous Peoples, environmental groups, peasants, workers, etc. that confront extractivism, both in terms of place-based projects, and the political economy and nature/society dualisms that legitimate extractive practices. * Creative responses to extraction. How are artists, creative writers and activists responding to extraction? How is / can art challenge and subvert extractivism? We welcome creative presentations that work well on the online format, such as photography and art portfolios, short films, and creative writing. * Post-extraction and regenerative systems. Can we live without extraction? What does a post-extractivist world look like? How are communities around the world protecting and/or building regenerative rather than extractive systems? How do different worldviews, including Māori and other indigenous perspectives on extraction, take us beyond a materialist discussion of post-extractivism to imagining and building alternatives? Nearly carbon-neutral conference format Traditional academic conferences are responsible for a considerable amount of carbon emissions, as presenters fly from around the world to present in a single location. This also incurs significant financial costs, which often precludes researchers from developing countries and postgraduate students from attending. The Environmental Humanities Initiative at UC Santa Barbara estimated that running an online conference reduces the carbon footprint of a conference by 99%, as well as broadening their reach and accessibility. This conference will take place entirely online in June-July 2020. Contributors will not have to travel anywhere and there is no registration fee. Conference presentations will consist of material that can be submitted online as a video file. This could take the form of a webcam recording, an edited video, a PowerPoint or Prezi with recorded audio or another form of video. Each presentation should be no more than 20 minutes long. Instructions on creating and submitting presentations for the conference are online here<http://perc.ac.nz/wordpress/submitting-a-video-file/>. For a sense of what this looks like in practice, please see previous conferences on “The Lives and Afterlives of Plastic<http://perc.ac.nz/wordpress/the-lives-and-afterlives-of-plastic/>” and “The Feral<http://perc.ac.nz/wordpress/feral/>”. We also ask contributors to actively engage with questions and ideas that other attendees post on their presentation. Abstract and panel submission instructions If you are interested in presenting at the conference, please send a 250 word abstract with your name, e-mail address, and affiliation to masseyPERC(a)gmail.com<mailto:masseyPERC@gmail.com> by Friday, March 6th 2020. We also welcome proposals for panels and (digital) roundtable discussions, and we encourage innovative formats. If you would like to propose a panel, please send us a short panel rationale and details of panel participants. After the conference, some contributors will be invited to develop their presentations for publication in an edited volume. Conference Organisers Glenn Banks, Massey University Alice Beban, Massey University Michiel Köhne, Wageningen University Elisabet Rasch, Wageningen University Hosted by Massey University Political Ecology Research Centre (PERC) Sy Taffel, PhD Programme Coordinator and Senior Lecturer in Media Studies |Co-Director, Political Ecology Research Centre<http://perc.ac.nz/> College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Massey University Email: s.a.taffel(a)massey.ac.nz<mailto:s.a.taffel@massey.ac.nz> | Telephone: +64 (06 ) 356 9099 ext. 84527 Recently Published: Taffel. S (2019) Digital Media Ecologies: Entanglements of Content, Code and Hardware<https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/digital-media-ecologies-9781501349263/>, New York and London: Bloomsbury Taffel. S (2019) Automating Creativity<http://screenworks.org.uk/archive/volume-10-1/automating-creativity> Screenworks 10.1

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