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CFP: 4S Open Panel on Science communication: Studying science communication and public engagement
by Hara, Noriko 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

***Call for Participation for 4S Open Panel on "Making science in public: Studying science communication and public engagement"*** https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/call-for-papers-and-panels/ Joint Conference for Society for Social Studies of Science & European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, Prague, August 18-21, 2020 Submission Deadline Feb 29, 2020 Science communication and public engagement with science are key mechanisms by which scientific knowledge is mediated, negotiated, and transformed. Over the past decades, STS research has outlined the ways in which science and society are co-produced through public communication activities and catalysed a shift towards dialogue and engagement in science communication practice. More recently, issues of representation, exclusion, and contestation have risen to the fore in discussions of science in public, as well as concerns about public (dis)trust in expertise, the dizzying impacts of social media, and debates about science's role in political activism and resistance. This open panel invites paper proposals that analyse such ways that science is represented, transformed, contested or negotiated in public venues. Papers may explore, for instance, citizen science; science and technology-related activism; science in social media; science in museums; deliberative experiments; popular science writing; science blogging; sciart activities; news media; or science comedy - as well as the myriad other sites and mechanisms by which science is done in public. We invite critical analysis of these sites and mechanisms. For example, papers might analyse the constitution of publics and knowledges within particular science communication activities; discuss affective or temporal regimes of public engagement with science; or give accounts of experimental practice that show how STS might contribute to doing science in public in just, generous, and collaborative ways. In particular, any analysis that showcases the significance and agency of STS in examining d! iverse pu blic engagements with science is welcomed. Single paper submissions should be in the form of abstracts of up to 250 words. They should include the paper's main arguments, methods, and contributions to STS. When you submit your paper, select Papers for Open Panels, and then, select "#Making science in public: Studying science communication and public engagement." Organizers: Sarah Davies, University of Copenhagen Noriko Hara, Indiana University Maja Horst, University of Copenhagen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Noriko Hara, Ph.D. Professor & & Director of MIS (Master of Information Science) Department of Information & Library Science School of Informatics, Computing, & Engineering | Indiana University http://norikohara.org<http://norikohara.org/>

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Momenta, Homosalus, Véritologie and Cyberpoetry as the BEST USE OF DH FOR FUN for DH AWARD2019
by Waliya, Yohanna Joseph 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

Hi, Please vote for my Momenta, Homosalus, Véritologie and Cyberpoetry for DH AWARD2019 as the BEST USE OF DH FOR FUN. You can also vote others that you like just click on http://dhawards.org/dhawards2019/voting/ to vote on Thursday or when the voting is open.

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WEBCAST TODAY: The Internet in Everything: Laura De Nardis and John Battelle
by Joly MacFie 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

This has just started ISOC Live posted: "On Tuesday January 28 2020 the Internet Education Foundation (IEF) will host the 2020 State of the Net Conference in Washington DC. As the 116th Congress enters its second year, some 300 congressional staff and other policymakers will attend America's p" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/lauranyc>Today, *Monday February 10 2020*, at *7pm EST* (00:00 UTC) the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://isoc.live/>* will webcast last Thursday’s book talk ‘*The Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch <http://bit.ly/31FlKGY>*‘ at McNally Jackson in NYC. Author *Dr. Laura DeNardis* was in conversation with *John Battelle*, co-founder and CEO of Recount Media Inc. *LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/lauranyc <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/lauranyc>* *BOOK: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300233070/internet-everything <https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300233070/internet-everything>* *TWITTER: #TheInternetinEverything <http://bit.ly/2v97YQJ>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/11774/ -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +2185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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2 new papers from the 4th East York study
by Barry Wellman 10 Feb '20

10 Feb '20

Two papers accepted by the Canadian Sociological Association, both to be presented in June 2020 (London, ON) by the intrepidMolly Harper <https://www.facebook.com/MollyHarper23?__tn__=%2CdK-R-R&eid=ARCxTTZTZzomd8Y…>: Cavacas, Kaitlyn, Molly Harper, Anabel Quan-Haase, and Barry Wellman. “The Sociology of Resignation: Examining the Digital Privacy Attitudes and Behaviours of East Yorkers.” Harper, Molly, Anabel Quan-Haase, and Barry Wellman. “Digital Media Use and Social Inclusion: A Case Study of East York Older Adults.” =================== Barry Wellman, FRSC Director, NetLab Network Founder, International Network for Social Network Analysis Kyle Lowry is My Spirit Animal Step by step, link by link, putting it together--Streisand/Sondheim The earth to be spannd, connected by network--Walt Whitman It's Always Something--Roseanne Roseannadanna A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times--You Are There! NETWORKED: The New Social Operating System Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman http://amzn.to/zXZg39 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Wellman

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New Book / New Project / The Democratization of Artificial Intelligence. Net Politics in the Era of Learning Algorithms / VW Foundation: How is AI Changing Science?
by Andreas Sudmann 10 Feb '20

10 Feb '20

Dear list-members, I’m very happy and excited to share some news with you! First, my new book The Democratization of Artificial Intelligence. Net Politics in the Era of Learning Algorithms is now available from Transcript Press in cooperation with Columbia University Press. It includes contributions by outstanding scholars such as VN Alexander, Lisa Reutter, Tobias Matzner, Alexander Monea, Frank Pasquale and Alexander Waibel. Please follow this link for access to the introduction of this collection: https://ruhr-uni-bochum.academia.edu/AndreasSudmann <https://ruhr-uni-bochum.academia.edu/AndreasSudmann> Second, the VW Foundation has funded our planning grant “How is AI Changing Science? Research in the Era of Learning Algorithms.” Among the members of this research group are Jens Schröter (Media Studies, Bonn University), Anna Echterhölter (History of Science, Vienna), Alexander Waibel (Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh) and yours truly. We are currently looking for further cooperation partners in Europe who use AI as a method for solving specific problems or tasks in their respective disciplines. Please let us know if you are involved in any interesting projects in this regard. If you want to know more about the project and its progress, follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/andreas_sudmann <https://twitter.com/andreas_sudmann> Please also check the VW foundation’s official website for further informations: http://portal.volkswagenstiftung.de/search/projectDetails.do?siteLanguage=e… <http://portal.volkswagenstiftung.de/search/projectDetails.do?siteLanguage=e…> Best, Andreas Sudmann _______________ PD Dr. Andreas Sudmann Ruhr University Bochum Institute for Media Studies Universitätsstraße 150 44780 Bochum Raum: GA 2/141 mail: andreas.sudmann(a)rub.de web: https://ifmlog.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ifm/personen/pd-dr-andreas-sudmann/ Recent book and journal publications: https://www.zfmedienwissenschaft.de/heft/ausgabe-21-kuenstliche-intelligenz… https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4719-8/the-democratization-of-a… https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-3530-0/machine-learning-medien-… Follow me on: Twitter https://twitter.com/andreas_sudmann academia.edu: https://ruhr-uni-bochum.academia.edu/AndreasSudmann

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Reminder: Workshop on Location-based Games at DiGRA 2020
by Dale Leorke (TAU) 10 Feb '20

10 Feb '20

Hi all, This is a reminder about a workshop on 'The Future of Location-based Games Research' workshop at DiGRA 2020 this June in Tampere, Finland. We need to inform DiGRA of registered participants by 14th Feb, so if you'd like to attend please register through this link: https://forms.gle/4t5gxxzaBxZ5pBzn6 Call for Participants: The Future of Location-based Gaming Research workshop, DiGRA 2020, Tampere 2 June 2020, 10.00-16.30 We are seeking participants for a one-day workshop to be held during the pre-conference program of DiGRA 2020 in Tampere, Finland, focusing on the future of location-based games research. Interested participants should express their interest by simply completing this short form<https://forms.gle/4t5gxxzaBxZ5pBzn6> [link: https://forms.gle/4t5gxxzaBxZ5pBzn6] Participants may just attend and participate in the discussion, or choose to also present a short paper of relevance to the theme. Please indicate your preference in the form. We hope to attract participants from diverse backgrounds and cultures and at different stages of their career, from students and early career researchers to established scholars. We are particularly looking forward to including a diverse and mixed group of researchers from east and west. If you have any questions, please contact Dale Leorke (dale.leorke(a)tuni.fi) Please complete the form by 14th February 2020. To read the full CfP, including an outline of the workshop structure, please visit the website: https://lbgworkshop.wordpress.com/ Workshop Organizers: Kati Alha, Elina Koskinen, Dale Leorke, Frans Mäyrä, Janne Paavilainen, Mattia Thibault (Tampere University, Finland); Nobushige Kobayashi (Tohoku Gakuin University, Japan), Yuhsuke Koyama (Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan), Ema Tanaka (Meiji University, Japan); Konstantinos Papangelis (Rochester Institute of Technology). - - - Dr Dale Leorke Postdoctoral Researcher Tampere University, Finland Author of Location-based Gaming<https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9789811306822> & Public Libraries in the Smart City<https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9789811328046> <https://uta-fi.academia.edu/DaleLeorke>Academia.edu<https://uta-fi.academia.edu/DaleLeorke> | LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/in/dleorke/><https://au.linkedin.com/in/dleorke>

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CfP: Digital⇌Culture 2020 Conference (May 2020)
by Peck Cheong 10 Feb '20

10 Feb '20

Hi all, Just a reminder that the deadline for the Digital⇌Culture 2020 Conference is this Friday (14 Feb). Postgrad grants available to PhDs within the UK and abroad (details below). Also, happy to note that Dr Kylie Jarrett will be keynoting the conference! Niki -- Digital⇌Culture 2020 Conference - CALL FOR PAPERS https://digitalcultureconference.wordpress.com/ A one-day conference hosted by the Digital Culture Research Network, and supported by the Midlands4Cities DTP (M4C) Cohort Development Fund Date: Friday 1st May 2020 Venue: University of Nottingham Abstract Submission Deadline: Friday 14th February 2020 The Digital Culture Research Network is pleased to open the call for papers for our third annual conference: ‘Digital⇌Culture 2020’. This year’s theme of ‘Boundaries’ encompasses the varied means by which digital technologies challenge, perpetuate or instantiate margins and limits. Despite the potential to transform notions of accessibility, the embodied realities of digital culture are subject to geopolitical, cultural, or ethical limitations. Digital platforms create new avenues for self-representation, and the boundary between our digital selves and our embodied selves ‘IRL’ are becoming increasingly porous (if they were ever really separate at all). The public/private binary is blurred: these identities can be censored by the platform or the state, and have their data privacy violated. In the era of the “long tail,” concepts of cultural fringes or margins are becoming problematized and objects of academic study shun any designation as “high” or “low” culture. The field of digital cultures also presents new challenges to researchers’ ethical boundaries. Submission For this one-day conference, we invite researchers from a diverse range of disciplines, particularly those early in their careers, to present theoretical and empirical research related, but not limited, to the following topics: -Geopolitical contexts of digital technologies -Methodological and ethical challenges posed by digital culture research -Data privacy and digital surveillance -Creative practice and/in digital technologies -Moderation, censorship and regulation of the Internet -Identity and its digital mediations -Embodiment and the Digital -Digital trash, junk and rubbish -Changing digital research practice In order to encourage proposals from doctoral researchers, up to ten joint-travel/accommodation grants are available to be awarded to successful proposals. Further details below. Submissions should follow the format below and be submitted to digitalcultureconference(a)gmail.com<mailto:digitalcultureconference@gmail.com> by 23:00 GMT on Friday 14th February 2020. -Paper Title -Speaker Name -Speaker Contact Email -Abstract (up to 250 words outlining the paper's main arguments, methods, and relevance to the conference theme) -Speaker Biography (up to 100 words) -Keywords (3 terms relevant to the paper) Funding This year, we are pleased to offer the following grant opportunities: A. 10 grants of one night’s accommodation and £50 towards travel This grant is open to all doctoral applicants, but at least five of the grants are reserved for non-M4C-funded applicants based at one of the DTP’s eight institutions: -University of Nottingham -Nottingham Trent University -Birmingham City University -University of Birmingham -De Montfort University -University of Leicester -University of Warwick -Coventry University Those currently funded by M4C are not eligible to apply for this grant. B. 2 grants of one night’s accommodation and £100 towards travel These two grants are specifically reserved for international researchers in order to facilitate them with the higher cost of coming from abroad to present a paper at the conference. Both grants will only be offered to doctoral students whose papers have been accepted for the conference. If you wish to apply for a grant, please complete a Grant Application Form (available at http://bit.ly/digitalculturegrant) and submit it with your abstract. Grants will be awarded on the basis of the conference organising committee’s collective consideration of submitted applications. This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender and delete the email and attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored where permitted by law.

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call for book chapters: women and activism in the digital age
by Carmit Wiesslitz, Ph.D 09 Feb '20

09 Feb '20

Call for Chapters (Apologies for cross-posting) Women and Activism in the Digital Age (temporary name, edited collection) Edited by Carmit Wiesslitz, PhD Deadline for Abstracts: March 31, 2020 The #MeToo movement has been mentioned in academic discourse as an effective online campaign that became widely spread and was covered extensively in the news media worldwide. When referring to this campaign, Internet researchers highlight the powerful role of social media platforms in activism in the digital age and many scholars talk about this campaign in this context. However, there is a very limited discourse about the fact that women are the leading figures behind this successful campaign or about their distinctive use of and related experience in the online public sphere. In fact, academic discourse has rarely put forward the topic of women activists and their use of social media. Why is it so important to place this issue at the focus of research? First of all, because the field of politics and extra-parliamentary politics is known as an extremely male-oriented/dominated sphere in which women are forced to struggle to successfully promote themselves and their agendas. Secondly, women’s organizations have unique features, specifically related to the way they run their organizations and operations, which often are more democratic and egalitarian. Thirdly, saliency and reliable representation in public discourse is a challenge, not only for women’s groups but also for all minority groups. The Internet may constitute an alternative, possibly more egalitarian, communications platform. This leads us to the following questions; Does the Internet provides women activists with a new platform to voice their agenda? Is the Internet perceived and used as a tool of empowerment? The contribution of research on these questions is related not only to the Internet and new digital platforms, but also to its focus on women, an important minority group, and its acknowledgement of women’s activism in the virtual world. This collection will hopefully open a window into the role and status of women’s groups that aspire to join forces to organize collective action using the Internet, and furthermore to gain an understanding of the discourse that women create on social media and other digital platforms. Hence, this book will present various case studies of women from around the world who use the Internet to facilitate social change on topics, including, but not limited to, the following: - Women’s groups and social change organizations and their on-going online operations. - Case studies of ad hoc campaigns and spontaneous viral collective action, such as the #MeToo campaign. - Distinct dimensions of Internet activism, from organizing offline/online protests and mobilizing for collective action, to producing and distributing memes, videos, and podcasts. - The Internet as a safe space: women’s discourse and online conversations of activists or non-activists (features, uses, and perceptions of value) The book is intended to be multidisciplinary volume that embraces a broad range of disciplinary perspectives, including, but not limited to, media studies, civil society and democracy, social movements, alternative media, feminisms, Marxism/neo-Marxism, globalization, structural/post-structural, and others. Furthermore, this book may offer empirical multidisciplinary perspectives and a wide array of methodologies for researching digital activism using various online platforms and apps such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, What's Up App, and others. Interested authors should send an abstract of 500 words, 3-5 references, and an up-to-date bio to Carmit Wiesslitz (<mailto:carmitwi@hac.ac.il><mailto:carmitwi@hac.ac.il>carmitwi(a)hac.ac.il<mailto:carmitwi@hac.ac.il>) no later than March 31, 2020, with “Women and activism in the digital age” in the subject line. Acceptance notices will be sent by May 31, 2020 Full papers of 6,000 to 8,000 words (including all references) will be due November 30, 2020. I intend to submit a proposal to Palgrave Macmillan (which already expressed its initial interest in this project and is awaiting the submission of a full proposal) after I have a confirmed table of contents and list of contributing authors. About the editor: Carmit Wiesslitz, PhD, is the author of Internet Democracy and Social Change: The Case of Israel <https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498539784/Internet-Democracy-and-Social-Change-…> (2019), published by Lexington Books. Her research areas include civil society, democracy and the Internet, media and social change, alternative media, women's organizations and new media. She is a lecturer in the Department of Politics and Communications at Hadassah Academic College, Israel. Best wishes, Carmit

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CfP: Outlaw innovation and the invention of the outlaw (EASST panel D04)
by maxigas 08 Feb '20

08 Feb '20

CfP: Outlaw innovation and the invention of the outlaw EASST 2018, 25-28th July 2018, Lancaster University, UK Convenors: Johan Söderberg (Göteborg University) & Maxigas (Lancaster University) Deadline for submissions: February 14th 2018. Submit abstracts and contact the conveners at: https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6286 We would like to invite you to submit abstracts to our panel at EASST 2018 The panel investigates innovation processes driven by antagonistic relations between actors on both sides of the law. We invite case studies of how mutual hostilities between actors are pursued through technological change, whereby each actor seeks to gain an edge against their adversary. Three empirical fields that exemplify this dynamic are the surge of legal highs, information security and crypto-currencies. More examples of the same thing can be found in other fields of empirical investigation and suit this panel. What we will examine under the label of "outlaw innovation" is how conflict breeds innovation. Related to this is an awareness of the tenuous relation between legislation and innovation. The "outlaw" is just another word for an innovator. Concurrently, however, capitalism strives relentlessly to subsume and integrate its own outside, turning this unknown into innovation and new markets. >From this observation follows that the purported outsider position ascribed to various grassroots innovators, users, etc., must be scrutinized. States, capital and academic actors work in conjunction with these outlawed/independent researchers to produce a shared language of common concerns around risks and opportunities inherent in technological innovation, such as in the Tor project. The legal grey zone thus emerges as an incubator of innovation for legal businesses. We encourage paper submissions utilizing diverse theoretical approaches and a wide range of case studies to explore the concept of the "outlaw innovator". -- Maxigas, kiberpunk FA00 8129 13E9 2617 C614 0901 7879 63BC 287E D166 Lecturer in Critical Digital Media Practice Center for Science Studies Department of Sociology Lancaster University https://relay70.metatron.ai/ Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality. ~ Yeats: Burnt Norton

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ICADIWT 2020
by ijwa＠dline.info 08 Feb '20

08 Feb '20

The Eleventh International Conference on Digital Information & Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2020) Thessaloniki, Greece November 09-11, 2020 https://www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt/ The Eleventh International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information & Web Technologies (ICADIWT) has travelled along 3 continents (America, Asia, Europe): from Bangalore (2019), Juarez City (2017), Keelung (2016), Hong Kong (2015), Chennai (2014), Stevens Point, WI (2011), Ayia Napa (2012), Istanbul (2010), London (2009) to Ostrava (2008).The 11th ICADIWT organization will take place at Thessaloniki, the second largest city of Greece. Research in Digital Information is a long lasting continuum of efforts in many directions, Web technologies being a mature field of profound impact. Notably, many researchers address application issues not necessarily limited to computing technologies in a narrow sense. ICADIWT’2020 is a forum for researchers to present innovative ideas, developments and applications in the areas of Applications of Digital Information & Web Technologies. ICADIWT’2020 will include presentations of contributed papers and state-of-the-art lectures by invited keynote speakers, focusing in the following topics (but not limited to): Internet Communication Internet Technologies Web Applications Internet Software Data Access and Transmission Digital Communication Software Digital Networks Web Communication Interfaces Adaptive Systems Internet of Things Internet of breath Augmented Reality Intelligent Agent systems Semantic Web Studies Adaptive Web applications and personalization Actuators and sensors Robotics and Machine Vision Vibration and noise control Smart cities and structures Control and Automation Human-machine interfaces Real-time simulation Submission, proceedings Papers must be submitted online through EasyChair. All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by Springer LNCS series. Author instructions along with LaTex2e (preferred) and Word macro files are available at Springer’s Information for LNCS Authors page (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Submitted papers should not exceed 14 pages (long papers) and 8 pages (short ones), including figures, tables and references. Authors of accepted papers are required to transfer their copyrights to Springer. For a paper to appear in the proceedings, at least one of the authors MUST register for the conference by the camera-ready submission deadline with a full registration Venue The venue is a 5* hotel, Grand Hotel Palace, https://www.grandhotelpalace.gr/en Important Dates 29 June 2020: Full papers submission 24 August 2020: Notification 7 September 2020: Camera ready and registration General Chairs Richard Chbeir, Univ Pau & Pays Adour,France Jolanta Mizera-Pietraszko, Opole University, Poland Program Chairs Yannis Manolopoulos,Open University of Cyprus,Cyprus Pit Pichappan, Digital Information Research Labs., UK Workshop Chair Spyros Sioutas, University of Patras, Greece Publicity Chair Anastasios Gounaris, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Contact: icadiwt(a)socio.org.uk -----------------

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