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fully funded Digital Humanities PhD position at the Swedish School of LIS
by Jutta Haider 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

Doctoral Student in Library and Information Science with a Specialisation in the Digital Humanities Info here: https://www.hb.se/en/About-UB/Work-at-UB/Job-vacancies/ At the Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT, education and research is conducted in Library and Information Science, Pedagogical Work as well as Trade and IT. We are now seeking a doctoral student in library and information science with a specialisation in the digital humanities at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science. The Swedish School of Library and Information Science has for a long time been active in the digital humanities. The school has established relationships and partners in the field both internationally and nationally, such as the network Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries, Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Gothenburg, and HumLab at Umeå University. A data lab focusing on digital methods development has recently been launched. Contact: asa.soderlind(a)hb.se (Head of Department)

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New book - Transcendent Parenting: Raising Children in the Digital Age
by Sun Sun LIM 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

Hello everyone, I am delighted to share details of my new book Transcendent Parenting: Raising Children in the Digital Age (Oxford University Press, 2020), available via OUP here<https://global.oup.com/academic/product/transcendent-parenting-978019066432…> and Amazon here<https://www.amazon.com/Transcendent-Parenting-Raising-Children-Communicatio…> I have blogged/written about it on LSE Parenting for a Digital Future<https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/parenting4digitalfuture/2020/02/12/when-playground-…> blog Oxford University Press<https://blog.oup.com/2019/11/what-lies-behind-asias-thriving-shadow-educati…> blog The Straits Times<https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-digital-connections-add-stress-both-pare…> The Page 99 Test<http://page99test.blogspot.com/2020/01/sun-sun-lims-transcendent-parenting.…> blog Back cover description: ��This book focuses on the phenomenon of transcendent parenting, where parents actively use technology to go beyond traditional, physical practices of parenting. In drawing on the experiences of intensely digitally-connected families in Singapore to tell a global story, Sun Sun Lim argues how transcendent parenting can embody and convey, intentionally or not, the parenting priorities in these households. Chapters outline how parents exploit mobile connectivity to transcend the physical distance between themselves and their children, the online and offline social interaction environments, and the timelessness of seemingly ceaseless parenting. Transcendent Parenting further explores how mobile communication allows parents to be more involved than ever in their children's lives, leaving readers to question whether or not parents have become too involved as a result. With its clear discussions of the effects of transcendent parenting on parents' wellbeing and children's personal development, Transcendent Parenting will appeal to a broad audience of readers, from scholars, educators and policy makers to parents and young people across the globe.�� Please let me know if you require review copies for your journal. Thank you! Best Sun Sun Sun LIM<http://www.sunsunlim.com/>, PhD Professor of Communication and Technology Head of HASS Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Singapore University of Technology and Design Books<https://www.sunsunlim.com/books.html> �O Articles<https://www.sunsunlim.com/journal-articles.html> �O Op-eds<https://www.sunsunlim.com/op-eds.html> �O Speeches<https://www.sunsunlim.com/parliamentary-speeches.html> �O Projects<https://www.sunsunlim.com/research.html> This email may contain confidential and/or proprietary information that is exempt from disclosure under applicable law and is intended for receipt and use solely by the addressee(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this email, or any attachment, is strictly prohibited. Please delete the email immediately and inform the sender. Thank You

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Post-doc: Media, Journalism and Community Power at the MIC Center
by Todd Wolfson 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

The MIC Center’s Media Ecosystem project is recruiting a Post-Doctoral Researcher *Philadelphia’s Media Ecosystem: Journalism, Community Organizing, and the Narratives and Power Structures that Shape our City* This project will explore the way that community groups across the region harness media and journalism and other tools to build community power. The research associate will focus on understanding the interrelationship between community-oriented media, organizing, and social change. This research will include a network analysis of both community media institutions and local community groups to understand their interconnections, as well as a qualitative examination of the ways media and other tools are harnessed to build within and across communities in the region. Skills and qualifications: ·PhD or equivalent combination of education and experience. ·Experience carrying out qualitative and ethnographic research with limited direction. ·Report writing ability, including experience writing for non-academic audiences. ·Ability to cultivate relationships quickly and excellent networking skills. ·Familiarity with and existing relationships with Philadelphia-area community groups a plus. ·Ability to perform Social Network Analysis/Organizational Network Analysis and the requisite quantitative skills to display and present data in compelling and accessible ways a plus. This post is full-time and for up to 24 months (part-time applications will also be considered). The Post-Doctoral fellow will be provided a stipend of $55,000, health insurance, a workspace, computer, and library access. It is expected that the fellow be working on-site in Philadelphia. *About MIC and the project: * The Media, Inequality & Change Center (MIC) is a collaboration between University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for communication and Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information. MIC occupies the intersection of technology, policy, and social justice. It is committed to studying the political economy of social problems, media, and democracy, while engaging local activist projects, and drawing connections with national and international social movements. Over the three-year grant, MIC will lead two integrated research projects focused on Philadelphia’s local media ecosystem. Mapping media institutions will be a multi-year, multi-phase study employing mixed methods and resulting in an in-depth, structural analysis of the region’s news media. MIC’s community network analysis will employ a political economic framework that assesses the ownership and control of local media as well as how communities harness media to make positive social change.Drawing on our deep national and international networks, MIC will cross-fertilize best practices, amplify findings, and facilitate dialogue across the city and beyond. As part of this project, MIC also will provide regular opportunities for project partners and community organizations to meet, share data, and collaborate with researchers, practitioners, and organizations engaged in similar work in other locations domestically and internationally. The project as a whole will contribute to new knowledge about the interrelationships between media, organizing, and social change. It will also shed light on the ways in which our local media ecosystem upholds systems of power. Ultimately, our aim is to outline a vision for remaking media in ways that reflect communities’ information needs, especially around vitally important social issues such as inequality and criminal justice. For more information: https://www.miccenter.org/?page_id=243&fbclid=IwAR1QGiJl-QU0pEyut-yjzUnQAMh… -- Todd Wolfson, Associate Professor Department of Journalism and Media Studies Rutgers University President, Rutgers AAUP-AFT <http://rutgersaaup.org> Co-director, MIC Center <https://www.miccenter.org> Co-founder and Board President, Media Mobilizing Project <http://www.mediamobilizing.org>

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Machine Intelligences in Context: Beyond the Technological Sublime ***Special Issue of Culture Machine ***
by Anne Kaun 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

Special Issue of Culture Machine Machine Intelligences in Context: Beyond the Technological Sublime Edited by Peter Jakobsson, Anne Kaun & Fredrik Stiernstedt We are seeking contributions for a special issue of Culture Machine<https://culturemachine.net/about/> – an international open-access journal of culture and theory – exploring Machine Intelligences in Context. Culture Machine is a series of experiments in culture and theory. Its aim is to seek out and promote scholarly work that engages provocatively with contemporary technical objects, processes and imaginaries from the North and South. Building on its open ended, non-instrumental, and exploratory approach to critical theory, Culture Machine calls for creative scholarship and research that contests globalizing technical narratives and their environmental logics of extraction. This special issue is a long overdue confrontation with the hype surrounding artificial intelligence. The supposed blessings that AI will bestow upon datafied societies, as well as the associated dangers, are now well-known both to the academic specialist and to the general public. Representatives from the tech sector and the world of politics claim that the fourth industrial revolution will be powered by AI and that AI will eventually become ubiquitous within politics, industry, culture and in everyday life. The impulse behind this special issue is to interrogate these prophesies a bit closer and to get a look behind the shiny surfaces of these new, often unseen technologies. Because it does seem that what AI actually promises, and most of all, what it actually delivers, is neither found in the realm of the fantastic nor the uncanny, and a lot of it is not even particularly new, intelligent or artificial. The task of this special issue is thus to provide a counter-narrative to the dominant accounts of AI. It is not a matter of debunking AI, of unmasking the ideological interests behind it or revealing its dirty algorithmic secrets, but of putting AI in its critical contexts beyond the technological sublime – ie. the myths surrounding current technological developments that are meant to inspire both awe and fantasies of control and mastery. By combining phenomena that do not normally go together, such as AI and intersectionality, this special issue seeks to un-familiarize the familiar and to make unexpected connections, while also exploring potential critical and more just futures. One question that seems particularly pertinent to ask is of the relations, substitutions and combinations of different forms of intelligence, both human and more than human, and to explore how these come together in different contexts. Contributions that employ critical perspectives from either the social sciences or the humanities are welcome, but we also invite and encourage experimental and transdisciplinary approaches, including contributions from the information sciences, software studies, and articles focused on case studies of AI with stakes for Latin America, Asia, and Africa. It is time to move past an understanding of AI that borders towards viewing it as a technological sublime. In order to do so we should analyse it as a broad phenomenon that questions the integration of machinic forms of intelligence in lived settings, particularly across the relations it is generating in the Global South. We welcome proposals that address, build upon and expand the following topics: * Critical interrogations of definitions and conceptualizations of intelligence(s) * Pluralities of machine intelligences * Sensory capacities and AI * The biopolitics and geopolitics of AI * Sex, gender and AI * Race and AI * Critical interrogations of AI narratives * Critical perspectives on AI sited in the Global South * Progressive regulation of AI Please submit a 500-word abstract and 2 page CV to peter.jakobsson(a)sh.se<mailto:peter.jakobsson@sh.se> by 1 March 2020 Timeline: Submission of abstracts 1 March 2020 Notification of acceptance 20 March 2020 Submission of full papers 1 September 2020 Peer Review 15 November 2020 Revision 15 December 2020 Publication January 2021

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Fwd: Data for Policy 2020: Call for Papers, Sessions and Workshops
by Zeynep Engin 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

1. *Data for Policy 2020:* Call for Papers and Session Proposals 2. *Data for Policy 2020:* Call for Pre-conference Workshops and Tutorials 3. *Vacancy (deadline: 28th February):* Research Assistant / Research Fellow in Data Science for Governance and Public Policy ------------------------------ 1)* Data for Policy 2020:* Call for Papers and Session Proposals 15-16 September 2020, UCL, London, UK dataforpolicy.org <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> | @dataforpolicy <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> | cambridge.org/dap <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> | @data_and_policy <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> The Data for Policy conference series is the premier global forum for multiple disciplinary and cross-sector discussions around the theories, applications and implications of data science innovation in governance and the public sector. The conference series has also entered into a new open-access peer-reviewed journal venture, *Data & Policy (cambridge.org/dap <http://cambridge.org/dap>)*, published by Cambridge University Press and supported by the Alan Turing Institute, the Office for National Statistics and UCL, in order to capture, assess and disseminate scholarly discussions in this fast-growing field. Convening for the fifth time in September 2020, the International Organisation Committee for the conference invites Paper and Panel Session proposals at the conference to be also considered for potential post-conference publications in *Data & Policy* (subject to peer-review). Topics covered include but are not limited to the following: - *Data, Governance and Policy:* Digital era citizenship, governance and democracy; data and sustainability, data and politics, evidence and information, data-algorithm-policy interactions, public-private sector collaborations, best practices; - *Governance Technologies (GovTech):* Machine Learning (ML) / Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Blockchain Distributed Ledger and Smart Contract Technologies, Behavioural and Predictive Analytics, Internet of Things, Information Security, location-based technologies, user-interaction technologies (chatbots, platforms etc.), and other relevant technologies; - *Systems & Infrastructure:* Data collection, capture, storage, sharing/transactions, processing and visualization systems, mobile applications and web services, high performance computing, distributed and decentralized systems, and other relevant topics; - *Data Processing & Knowledge Generation: *Data representation and pre-processing, data integration, real-time and historical data analysis, mathematical and statistical models, ‘data-driven’ analysis, mixed methodologies, secondary data analysis, web mining, Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs), gaps in theory and practice, other relevant topics; - *Policy for Data & Management: *Data governance and regulatory frameworks; General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); data ownership, curation, sharing and linkage; meta-data, standards and interoperability, responsible innovation in governance; - *Trust, Privacy, Ethics & Law: *Personal data sharing, data integrity, algorithm agency and accountability, ‘trustworthiness’ of autonomous systems, algorithmic transparency and interpretability, citizen-government-private sector interactions, citizen/public rights and free speech, other social/ethical concerns and technology responses. In addition to these Standard Tracks, submissions can also be made to the following Special Tracks <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> that have been shortlisted for this year’s conference: - *Special Track 1: *Data, analytics and digital transformation in the private sector - *Special Track 2: *Data Quality and Development Policy - *Special Track 3: *Data Trusts: Democratising data governance - *Special Track 4: *Documenting Data and Data Science: Surfacing Data Processes and Practices - *Special Track 5: *Feminicide, Data and Policy: data activism, civic information ecosystems, and public policy oriented to ending lethal gender-related violence against women - *Special Track 6:* ‘For good measure’: The challenges of quantifying complex problems for policymaking - *Special Track 7: *Harnessing Data and Science to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals - *Special Track 8: *Regulating algorithmic trading in financial markets - *Special Track 9: *Google Economics: Data – Complex Models – well-informed Policy Making - *Special Track 10: *Data technologies and governance frameworks used for gathering, storing, managing, processing, analyzing and sharing data in the public administrations - *Special Track 11: *Recent experiences using GovTech to address data sharing challenges and to implement modern data access paradigms - *Special Track 12:* Data Literacy for Policy - *Special Track 13: *Data Governance in the Public Interest - *Special Track 14:* Data Governance for Innovation for Sustainable Smart Cities: Opportunities and Challenges in Public Policy and Institutional Design - *Special Track 15: *Applying data for improved service design and delivery *Submission instructions * Contributors should follow the instructions on the conference website <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> in order to submit an abstract for their paper or session proposal, or their poster presentation. Abstract submissions will be assessed according to the criteria outlined on the website. Contributors will be notified on 18th May whether they have been accepted into the conference. *Dissemination options* Those accepted to present at the conference will be given two mutually compatible, open-access options for disseminating their full paper and/or any related materials. The Data for Policy community platform on Zenodo ( https://zenodo.org/communities/dfp17 <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…>), an open-access repository, can be used to share the paper ahead of the conference, along with any related materials such as posters, slides, audio, video, protocol, data sets and code that you think others may wish to view or re-use. In addition, there is the option of submitting a full paper to *Data & Policy *(cambridge.org/dap), the open access journal launched in collaboration with Cambridge University Press (CUP). As outlined on the website the journal considers several article types <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…>: research papers, commentaries, replication studies and* Data & Policy* reports. Authors will receive feedback from editors and reviewers with expertise in different domains, as a result of the peer-review process <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> overseen by the Editorial Board <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…>. If accepted, the paper will receive greater impact as a result of formal publication, curation and promotion from our partners at CUP. Neither of these dissemination options are required for presenting at the conference, but we encourage contributors to consider the advantages of using them to help build the community and knowledge base concerned with impact of data science on policy and governance. *Contacts: *For all questions related to conference submissions, please contact team(a)dataforpolicy.org; and for questions relating to publication in *Data & Policy*, please contact dataandpolicy(a)cambridge.org . ------------------------------ 2. *Data for Policy 2020:* Call for Pre-conference Workshops and Tutorials 14 September 2020, UCL, London, UK dataforpolicy.org <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> | @dataforpolicy <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> | cambridge.org/dap <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> | @data_and_policy <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> *Workshops and Tutorials Chair: *Professor C. Leigh *Anderson*, University of Washington Data for Policy is inviting proposals for 1.5-hour workshops for a pre-conference program on 14th September aimed at educating policy practitioners and researchers on current and emerging knowledge and debates on topics that intersect data and public policy. In exceptional cases, allocation of multiple 1.5-hour slots on the same theme will also be considered. We are seeking a selection of workshops that preview or complement the conference program. Proposals from the academic, government, and private sector of a non-commercial nature are welcome. Accepted workshop proposals will be published on the conference website <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> and advertised for registration. *Workshop Goals* Valuable workshops are those that advance participant’s ability to be critical and informed consumers or producers of data based evidence, understand the differences between causal inference and prediction, and be cognizant of the potential and limitations of new data sources and computational methods for public policy and program delivery. Topics can fall into three areas and cover: - *Technical to policy translation* on data sources such as the internet, IoT, social media, administrative, satellite and other remotely-sensed, computation methods and technologies (e.g. AI, Blockchain), and popular/ open-access data and document sharing and management tools. - *Policy to technical translation* covering how the policy process works, points of decision-making and the use of data; current methods of program delivery including coverage, measurement and evaluation; legal and policy frameworks governing data production, acquisition, sharing and use. - *Sector applications* in particular policy fields such as health, education, climate, transportation, employment, finance and management, governance and democracy, and security. We have two target audiences in mind. These are: - *Executive, Policy and Practitioner:* These participants are key decision-makers and influencers primarily in the public sector, but also in private and not-for-profit organizations with social responsibility in health, education, transportation or any field where knowledge and expertise will be complemented by a greater understanding of the technical domain, including what is meant by privacy, how to work and communicate with data scientists, using data and technology to improve program delivery, estimating the cost-effectiveness of different digital technologies, and anticipating the regulatory and ethical implications. Proposals that target this audience should think of relatively introductory level instruction pertaining to the language, landscape, value, uses and likely impacts of different technologies and data sources. - *Researchers and Data Scientists Specializing in Government and Public Applications:* These participants are researchers and analysts from the social or computing sciences or other fields, such as law and philosophy. Proposals that target this audience should be clear about any assumed background training for a workshop more focused on producers of knowledge using new technologies, data, and methods, and the policy implications of the research. General audience workshops that both groups can attend may also be proposed. Queries can be directed to team(a)dataforpolicy.org Submissions should be made via *EasyChair <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…>* (please see guidelines <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…>for further instructions). ------------------------------ 3. *Vacancy (deadline: 28th February)*: Research Assistant / Research Fellow in Data Science for Governance and Public Policy We are interested in building a collaborative team to lead research in this emerging field whilst also supporting the coordination and management of our two main projects – *Data for Policy* <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> conference series and the *Data & Policy* <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…> journal. The primary purpose of this post will be to research, monitor and report on the evolution of an emerging field using data science for policy and public good, with the aim of growing the conference and publications in the journal. The post holder will support the Data for Policy project activities based at UCL Computer Science. Depending on their experience and appointment level, they will be expected to conduct and/or contribute to group research efforts, help with the editorial responsibilities of the Data & Policy journal and the organisation of the annual Data for Policy conferences. The funding for this post is for 12 months in the first instance. For further information and to apply for the vacancy please click ‘Apply now’ in this link. <https://dataforpolicy.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0e48a758fb1eccb009e…>

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Invitation: opensym 2020 call for paper - 25-27 August 2020| ... - ven. 24 avr. 2020 15:30 - 16:30 (CEST) (air-l@listserv.aoir.org)
by joubert.leo＠gmail.com 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

Vous avez été invité à l'événement suivant. Titre : [Air-L] opensym 2020 call for paper - 25-27 August 2020| Madrid, Spain Dear Colleagues, OpenSym's call for papers is online! https://opensym.org/os2020/call-for-papers/ Submission deadline: 24 April 2020 " The 16th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym 2020) is the premier conference on open collaboration research and practice, including open source, open data, open science, open education, wikis and related social media, Wikipedia, and IT-driven open innovation research. OpenSym is the first conference series to bring together the different strands of open collaboration research and practice, seeking to create synergies and inspire new collaborations between people from computer science, information science, social science, humanities, and everyone interested in understanding open collaboration and how it is changing the world. This year’s conference will be held in Madrid, Spain, on 25-27th... Date : ven. 24 avr. 2020 15:30 – 16:30 Heure d’Europe centrale - Paris Agenda : air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Participants : * joubert.leo(a)gmail.com- organisateur * nicolas.jullien(a)telecom-bretagne.eu * socnet(a)lists.ufl.edu * air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org Détails de l'événement : https://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=MjZzcnNpb2IzcmpmN3Fnd… Invitation de Google Agenda : https://www.google.com/calendar/ Vous recevez ce message à l'adresse air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org, car vous participez à cet événement. Refusez cet événement pour ne plus recevoir de notifications le concernant. Vous avez également la possibilité de créer un compte Google à l'adresse https://www.google.com/calendar/ et de définir vous-même les paramètres de notification pour l'intégralité de votre agenda. En transférant cette invitation, vous risquez d'autoriser tous les destinataires à envoyer une réponse à l'organisateur et à être ajoutés à la liste des invités, à inviter d'autres personnes indépendamment de l'état de l'invitation qu'ils ont reçue, ou à modifier votre réponse à l'invitation. Pour plus d'informations, consultez la page https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

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opensym 2020 call for paper - 25-27 August 2020| Madrid, Spain
by Nicolas Jullien 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

Dear Colleagues, OpenSym's call for papers is online! https://opensym.org/os2020/call-for-papers/ Submission deadline: 24 April 2020 " The 16th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym 2020) is the premier conference on open collaboration research and practice, including open source, open data, open science, open education, wikis and related social media, Wikipedia, and IT-driven open innovation research. OpenSym is the first conference series to bring together the different strands of open collaboration research and practice, seeking to create synergies and inspire new collaborations between people from computer science, information science, social science, humanities, and everyone interested in understanding open collaboration and how it is changing the world. This year’s conference will be held in Madrid, Spain, on 25-27th August 2020. A Doctoral Consortium will take place on 24 August 2020. OpenSym 2020 invites submissions for a range of tracks, including completed research papers, posters, and Doctoral Consortium research proposals. New this year are the New Ideas and Emerging Research (NIER) track, and a Journal-First track. Also new this year is a Journal Article Collection in the Journal of Internet and Software Applications, to which the best papers in the conference are invited. Papers accepted in the full research paper and NIER tracks will be included in the conference proceedings published by the ACM. Submissions to the other tracks will be included in a non-archival companion proceedings." NJ -- Professeur / Professor IMT Atlantique https://nicolasjullien.wp.mines-telecom.fr/ Directeur de M@rsouin http://www.marsouin.org Membre du LEGO http://labo-lego.fr Responsable du M2 management innovation parcours Mgt du SI et des données @ischool IMT Atlantique https://innovationmanagement.wp.imt.fr/

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CFP: Extraction: Tracing the Veins
by Taffel, Sy 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

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 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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New funding program by Facebook for misinformation and polarization research
by Alex Leavitt 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

Big announcement today! Facebook is providing $2,000,000 in new unrestricted grants for academic research about misinformation and polarization on social media! Apply at https://research.fb.com/blog/2020/02/facebook-misinformation-polarization-r… by April 1. --- Alex Leavitt, Ph.D. Quantitative UX Researcher, Facebook Research http://alexleavitt.com Twitter: @alexleavitt <http://twitter.com/alexleavitt>

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CFP ECREA 2020 pre-conference: Disinformation studies
by Inês Amaral 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

*ECREA 2020 pre-conference“Disinformation studies: perspectives to an emerging research field”* October 2 University of Minho, Braga, Portugal *BRIEF DESCRIPTION*The aim proposed for this ECREA 2020 pre-conference is to promote research that helps to define policies and strategies contributing to combat and effectively minimize the phenomena of disinformation and manipulation in the journalistic field. Thus, we intend to join together researchers who are interested in the topic, to develop this field of disinformation studies. *CALL FOR PAPERS*The main goal of the event is to develop a set of studies and policies that allow us to identify and contribute to combat and effectively minimize the phenomena of misinformation and manipulation in the journalistic field. In addition to Fake news, the study of disinformation in the journalistic field includes theoretical paradigms and empirical approaches that go beyond those: bias, concealment of facts, agenda building, strategic use of sources, mobilization of emotion, empathic media and omission of data are studied in other contexts of journalism studies helping to clarify this new phenomenon. There is a vast experience in the media effects theory, whose researchers studied, in due course, a set of phenomena of information and manipulation that today, with the necessary adaptations, constitute a corpus of examples and inspiration for new researches in different contexts. Finally, new research trends began to emerge which constitute a valuable theoretical and experimental corpus for the contemporary and present times: empathic media, recognition of patterns of reading, identification of behavior and consumption patterns with far-reaching consequences around on social, cultural and political life and considerable impact on democratic, electoral and civic participation practices. The contributions to the event should focus (among others) the following topics: - Identifying through case studies, examples of media whether revealing weaknesses or, instead, using strategies particularly directed to fight the phenomenon; - Discussing new manipulation and disinformation strategies, considering in those the study of the audience from the perspective of their manipulation through the mobilization of emotions; - Discussing a theoretical and systematic framework for the analysis of disinformation and manipulation phenomena; - Identifying the use of devices and tools that help to combat the phenomenon of disinformation; - Identifying professional practices and professional routines that help to combat the disinformation phenomena; - Identifying and proposing public policies to decision-makers that helps to minimize and fighting disinformation phenomena; - Discussing the relevance of a subfield called Disinformation studies. Abstracts of 400 words with 3 -5 keywords (excluding tables, figures, and references) must be written in English and should outline the research topic as well as the theoretical and methodological approach. Pictures/tables/charts are allowed within the abstract but do not count against the word count. All abstracts will be subject to a double-blind peer review. Submit your abstract as an e-mail attachment with no references to the author(s). Author(s) details (name, affiliation and contact details) must be included in the e-mail message. More info: https://www.ecrea2020braga.eu/disinformation-studies-perspectives-to-an-eme… *ORGANISERS* João Carlos Correia, University of Beira Interior, Portugal (jcorreia(a)ubi.pt ) Pedro Jerónimo, University of Beira Interior, Portugal (pj(a)ubi.pt) Inês Amaral, University of Coimbra, Portugal (ines.amaral(a)uc.pt) *SPONSORS*Media Veritas Re/media.Lab LabCom – Communication and Arts Journalism and Society SOPCOM Working Group -- Inês Amaral Professora Associada | Associate Professor Diretora do 1.º Ciclo de Estudos em Jornalismo e Comunicação | Director of the Undergraduate Program Studies in Journalism and Communication Universidade de Coimbra • Faculdade de Letras | University of Coimbra • Faculty of Arts and Humanities Largo da Porta Férrea | 3004-530 • Coimbra • Portugal Tel. | Phone: +351 239 410 090 E-mail: ines.amaral(a)uc.pt www.uc.pt | www.uc.pt/fluc

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