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job opening - broadband policy and regulatory specialist
by Dhanaraj Thakur 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

Dear all, We have a new job opening for a Policy and Regulatory Specialist. They will provide expert advice to all Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI)’s projects, with a focus on technical assistance and advisory work. You’ll design and implement effective policy advocacy strategies to support A4AI’s ambitious policy change goals and contribute to the development of a powerful evidence base to support our work to make broadband affordable for all. *Read the full job description <https://1e8q3q16vyc81g8l3h3md6q5f5e-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uplo…> to find out more.* *To apply, please read the full job description <https://1e8q3q16vyc81g8l3h3md6q5f5e-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uplo…> and email your CV and a cover letter with the subject line “Policy and Regulatory Specialist” to jobs(a)webfoundation.org <jobs(a)webfoundation.org> by **February 28, 2020**.* Feel free to share with your colleagues and networks. thanks and take care, Dhanaraj -- Dhanaraj Thakur (he/him) Research Director World Wide Web Foundation <https://webfoundation.org> +1 857 498 8869 (USA) @thakurdhanaraj PGP: 0xFCB84FE2A0E7C147 *World Wide Web Foundation | **1110 Vermont Ave NW, Suite 500, Washington DC 20005, USA.*

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Call for applications for postdoctoral fellowship aimed at expanding career opportunities for marginalized youth in the U.S.
by Jamieson L Pond 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

The Connected Learning Lab (CLL) at the University of California, Irvine, invites applications from emerging scholars for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship to engage in research-practice partnerships and youth participatory action research aimed at expanding career opportunity for marginalized youth in the U.S. Link to application form and more info: https://connectedlearning.news/PostdocFellowAIR We are seeking scholars with deep connections and background with marginalized communities, committed to social justice, with research interests in career equity. The two-year fellowship offers an award of $70,000 per year for salary and benefits, with additional support for research and travel expenses, and professional development offered by the CLL in youth participatory action research and socially engaged scholarship. The fellowship involves matchmaking with mentors, host institutions, and organizations, and selected fellows will need to be located near their host institution and/or partner organizations. This fellowship offers a unique opportunity to be part of shaping a new network of researchers and practitioners in its inaugural and startup years. We invite scholars who embrace a spirit of innovation, experimentation, and collaboration and are committed to research in the service of educational practice and equity. This fellowship program is part of a broader set of initiatives centered on how identity, culture, and social relationships drive career gaps and opportunities for youth from economically and racially marginalized communities. We look in particular at how to best tap the assets, identities, culture, and communities of marginalized youth in expanding career opportunity. Background information Anchor funding for the fellowships is provided by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) Equitable Futures project. The program is administered by the CLL, a research institute at the University of California, Irvine, dedicated to studying and mobilizing new learning approaches in equitable, innovative and learner-centered ways. The BMGF and CLL will be partnering with a broader network of funders, universities, and organizations in support of this fellowship. Respectfully, *Jamieson Pond, Communications Manager* Connected Learning Lab University of California, Irvine CLAlliance.org <https://clalliance.org/> | ConnectedLearning.uci.edu <http://connectedlearning.uci.edu/> Twitter: @TheCLAlliance <https://twitter.com/TheCLAlliance> | @TheCLSummit <https://twitter.com/TheCLSummit> Fb.com/ConnectedLearningAlliance <https://www.facebook.com/ConnectedLearningAlliance/> Connected Learning Newsletter <https://clalliance.org/newsletter> ------------------------------ *Connected Learning Summit 2020 <https://connectedlearningsummit.org>* July 29-31, 2020 | Cambridge, MA

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an anniversary of note in cybersecurity history
by Richard Forno 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

"Security Controls For Computer Systems --- The Report of the Defense Science Board Task Force on Computer Security" by Willis Ware ... one of the original, if not THE original, formal documents that gave birth to the cybersecurity and cybersecurity-related disciplines of today. The report is dated: 11 February 1970. PDF @ https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//dc.html?doc=2800105-Document-01-Defense-Science… ... it's also a great trivia question to stump your geek friends, even if they're hard-core security folks, too. :) Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose..... -- rick --- Dr. Richard Forno Senior Lecturer, CSEE Director, Graduate Cybersecurity Program Assistant Director, UMBC Center for Cybersecurity 1-0

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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 10 Feb '20

10 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 10 Feb '20

10 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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