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Call for nominations - The International Journal of Press/Politics Best Book Award 2020 - Deadline: 1 March 2020
by Cristian Vaccari 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '20

*Call for Nominations for **The International Journal of Press/Politics Best Book Award 2020* *Deadline: 1 March 2020* The call for papers is also available at https://cristianvaccari.com/2020/01/08/call-for-nominations-for-the-interna…. Please feel free to share to anyone who might be interested. Nominations are invited for the annual International Journal of Press/Politics Best Book Award, to be sent to IJPP Editor-in-Chief Cristian Vaccari by email no later than March 1. *Rationale* The International Journal of Press/Politics Best Book Award honors internationally-oriented books that advance our theoretical and empirical understanding of the linkages between news media and politics in a globalized world in a significant way. It is given annually by the International Journal of Press/Politics and sponsored by Sage Publications. The award committee will judge each nominated book on several criteria, including the extent to which the book goes beyond analyzing a single case country to present a broader and internationally-oriented argument, the significance of the problems addressed, the strength of the evidence the book relies on, conceptual innovation, the clarity of writing, and the book’s ability to link journalism studies, political communication research, and other relevant intellectual fields. *Eligibility* Books published within the last ten years will be considered. Monographs as well as edited volumes of exceptional quality and coherence will be considered for the award. Books by current members of the award committee are ineligible and committee members will recuse themselves from discussion of books by members of their own department, works published in series that they edit, and similar circumstances. *Award committee* The award committee consists of Cristian Vaccari (the editor of the International Journal of Press/Politics), Kimberly Gross (chair of the Political Communication Division of ICA), and Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt (chair of the Journalism Studies Division of ICA). *Nominations* Nominations including a rationale of no more than 350 words should be emailed by March 1 to Cristian Vaccari at c.vaccari(a)lboro.ac.uk. Self-nominations are accepted. The nomination must specify why the book should receive the award by outlining the importance of the book to the study of media and politics and by identifying its international contribution and relevance. Please include links to or copies of relevant reviews in scholarly journals. Arrangements should be made with the publishers of nominated books for one hard copy to be sent by March 1 to each of the three committee members at the following addresses: - Cristian Vaccari, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Brockington Building U.3.19, Loughborough University, Epinal Way, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, United Kingdom. - Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt, Department of Communication and Journalism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel - Kimberly Gross, School of Media and Public Affairs, George Washington University, 805 21st Street NW, Suite 400, Washington DC 20052, USA *Presentation*The award will be presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the International Communication Association and will be announced on the IJPP website. The awarded book will also receive recognition in issue 4/2020 of the journal. *Past winners of the award* 2019: Maria Repnikova, Media Politics in China: Improvising Power Under Authoritarianism (Cambridge University Press, 2017). 2018: Erik Albæk, Arjen van Dalen, Nael Jebril, and Claes H. de Vreese, Political Journalism in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2014). 2017: Katrin Voltmer, The Media in Transitional Democracies (Polity Press, 2013). 2016: Andrew Chadwick, The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power (Oxford University Press, 1st edition 2013). 2015: Rodney Benson, Shaping Immigration News (Cambrige University Press, 2014). Cristian Vaccari ****************************************************** Professor of Political Communication, Loughborough University <http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/socialsciences/staff/cristian-vaccari/> Co-Director, Centre for Research in Communication and Culture <https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/crcc/> Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Press/Politics <http://journals.sagepub.com/home/hij> Chair, APSA Information Technology & Politics section <https://www.apsanet.org/section18> ****************************************************** Brockington Building U.3.19 Epinal Way, Loughborough, LE11 3TU United Kingdom ****************************************************** Personal website: https://cristianvaccari.com/ Google Scholar profile <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=3_TethEAAAAJ&hl=en> Twitter: @prof_vaccari <https://twitter.com/prof_vaccari>

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CfP Special issue on The Datafication of (Media) Audiences in Mediekultur
by David Mathieu 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '20

Dear colleagues, This is a reminder that there is less than a week left until the deadline for abstract submission (Jan 15th) to the special issue in the journal Mediekultur on The Datafication of (Media) Audiences. See more details below. Call for papers: Datafication of media (and) audiences 2019-11-13 Special issue of MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research Guest editor: David Mathieu (Roskilde University) Theme editor: Ana Jorge (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Miguel Torga) Academic knowledge built over the last five decades on media audiences may be called into question by algorithmic recommendations, machine learning, platform design and new metrics that describe, anticipate and shape the audience’s every move. While we hold that audiences are selective in their choice of content (Katz et al., 1974), form communities of interpretation (Fish, 1980) and are freely giving their attention to public issues (Warner, 2002), it would appear that they are now increasingly being selected, calculated, interpreted and anticipated by media on the basis of a wide range of data provided more or less willingly and consciously. This datafication of media (and) audiences – i.e. the quantification of audience mediated experiences – is not to be understood simply as a new form of knowledge, but also as a new era in the commodification of audiences, challenging our understanding of audiences as an agentic and autonomous subjects. This special issue invites contributions that: * explore critically the tensions between, on the one hand, attempts at control and commodification made possible by the datafication of media (and) audiences, and on the other hand, the reactions and agentic possibilities of audiences to comply, avoid or cope with these attempts at control; * provide empirical basis to answer broad and worrying questions about the democratic and societal consequences of datafication, about its impact on media consumption, everyday and cultural life, by operationalizing media audiences as a key actor in mediated processes of datafication; * shed light on and theorise new forms of relation and mutual influence that link media with their audiences in the age of datafication. Contributions can address, but are not limited to, these topics: * Type, nature and origin of data collected on media audiences and their purposes in media production and practice * Media practices made possible by data that contribute to the quantification, objectification and commodification of audiences * Coping strategies and reactions of resistance or appropriation to datafication from the part of media audiences * Audiences’ experiences of normalization, trust, comfort, compliance, numbness, resignation, anxiety in the face of datafied media * Implications of data collection, aggregation, analysis, prediction, profiling and brokering on audience agency * Consequences of the quantification of human experience, the transformation of subjective experience into ‘objective’ knowledge, the algorithmic personalization and recommendation of media content on the mediated experiences and everyday life of audiences * The transformation of news practice, public connection and audience engagement in the age of datafication * The (lack of) transparency and accountability of data practices in media industries, and especially the challenges this poses for audiences’ capacity to read the media (their media literacy) * The new asymmetries and power relations that data practices may bring between media institutions and audiences, or between different segments of audiences * Cultural specificities of the processes of datafication of media and the reception by audiences, including cross-cultural variations * Impact of datafication on theories and methodologies in media and audience research References: Fish, S. (1980). Is There A Text in This Class, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U. Press. Katz, E., Blumler, J. G., & Gurevitch, M. (1974). Ulilization of mass communication by the individual. In J. G. Blumler, & E. Katz (Eds.), The uses of mass communications: Current perspectives on gratifications research (pp. 19–32). Beverly Hills: Sage. Warner, M. (2002). Publics and counterpublics (abbreviated version). Quarterly Journal of Speech, 88(4), 413–425. Call for contributions and key dates: Interested contributors to this special issue are first invited to provide an extended abstract of 500 words (excluding references) to mathieu(a)ruc.dk<mailto:mathieu@ruc.dk> with the subject ‘Datafication of media (and) audiences’. Following a first review process, invitations will be sent to provide a full paper of 6000-8000 words (including references) through the Open Journal System, which will then go under peer review following the usual procedure of the journal MedieKultur. Invitation to submit a full paper does not guarantee acceptance for final publication in the journal. Accepted languages of contribution are English and Danish. January 15th 2020: Deadline for abstract submission February 1st 2020: Invitation to submit a full paper June 1st 2020: Submission of full paper July 31st 2020: Notification of acceptance and/or revisions August-October 2020: Revision period October 31st 2020: Final submission About the editors: David Mathieu is associate professor at the Department of Communication & Arts at Roskilde University, Denmark. He chairs the Audience and Reception Studies section of the European Communication, Research and Education Association and is leader of the research group Audiences & Mediated life. His current work focuses on audience and reception research in the context of social media, digitalisation of communication and datafication of society. Ana Jorge is Guest Assistant Professor at Universidade Católica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Instituto Superior Miguel Torga, Portugal. She is Vice-Chair of the Digital Culture and Communication section of ECREA. Best, David -- David Mathieu, Ph.D. Associate professor in Communication Studies Head of research group Audiences & Mediated Life (AMLife) Chair of the Audience and Reception Studies section of ECREA International Coordinator in Communication Studies DCA, Roskilde University Universitetsvej 1, Postboks 260 4000 Roskilde, Denmark Office 41.3.02, phone: 4674-3144

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Senior Researcher Position in Computational Social Science at the Leibniz-Institute for Media Research in Hamburg, Germany
by Felix Victor Münch 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '20

Dear AoIR list members, there is still one weekend left to apply for an awesome senior researcher position in computational social/communication science to plan, build, and manage our Media Research Methods Lab. https://leibniz-hbi.de/en/news/senior-researcher-computational-social-scien… > From 2020 onwards, HBI will pool and expand its methodological competencies in a "Media Research Methods Lab" (MRML). The MRML will focus on linking established social science methods with novel computational methods (for example, automated content analysis/natural language processing, image recognition, network analysis, log data analysis, experience sampling, and machine learning). This can also include work in the areas of regulatory science such as case law, the analysis of text corpora, and the ethical-legal components of data collection and evaluation procedures. In addition to delving into further methodological development, the lab will focus on the transfer of specialist knowledge within the institute and to the wider scientific community as well as to other HBI stakeholders. Together with Dr. Sascha Hölig, the successful candidate will be expected to manage the MRML and further develop its conceptual direction. Please consider applying for this until 15.1.2020 (canary:event?ts=600260405.00) or relaying this vacancy to possibly interested candidates: Feel free to ask me anything about the position, the institute, Hamburg, or Germany. Best, Dr. Felix Victor Münch Postdoc Researcher Leibniz Institut for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI), Hamburg https://leibniz-hbi.de/ https://felixvictor.net (https://felixvictor.net/)

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Call for Papers: Special Issue on Cyber-Social Health: Promoting Good and Countering Harm on Social Media
by Ugur Kursuncu 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '20

Dear Colleagues, Please consider submitting your papers on the topic of "Cyber-Social Health: Promoting Good and Countering Harm on Social Media" for the Special Issue of IEEE Internet Computing. Link for the CfP here: https://www.computer.org/digital-library/magazines/ic/call-for-papers-speci… Please kindly share with your colleagues, students, and collaborators. This special issue welcomes theoretical, analytical, and empirical contributions using any kind of research method, including experiments, primary data from social media logs, case studies, simulations, surveys, and so on. Submissions are encouraged to examine the nature of both harmful and social good intentional behaviors on social media towards understanding, detecting, and monitoring good communication while countering harmful communication, by employing computational social media analytics techniques. The target audience for this special issue will consist of researchers, practitioners, and graduate students from various disciplines, including (but not limited to) behavioral science, computer and information sciences, psychology, sociology, political science, cognitive science, cultural study, information systems, terrorism and counter-terrorism, operations research, and communication. Through this special issue, we aim to bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines, to share, exchange, learn, and develop preliminary results, new concepts, ideas, principles, and methodologies on social, cultural, emotional, communicative, and linguistic aspects of harmful communications and their content on social media. *Topics* include, but are not limited to: - Misinformation, disinformation, fake news (e.g., during elections, epidemics, and disasters, as well as regarding health topics like vaccines), and spreading deep fakes - Online extremism - Harassment and cyberbullying - Hate speech - Gender-based violence - Human trafficking - Illicit drug trafficking - Mental health implications of social media - Validity of social media in smart health and well-being - Ethical and privacy-preserving social media analytics - Emotional and psychological support - Trust relationship and community dynamics - Relationship of social web and mainstream news media - Cultural implications of social web usage - Social good campaigns and movements - Influencer identification and community detection for movements *Important Dates* * Paper submissions due: April 15, 2020* First-round reviews due: July 8, 2020 Revisions due: August 12, 2020 Final decision notification: September 16, 2020 Camera-ready submissions due: September 30, 2020 Publication: November/December 2020 *Guest Editors* Nitin Agarwal, University of Arkansas, USA Ugur Kursuncu, AI Institute, University of South Carolina, USA Hemant Purohit, George Mason University, USA Amit Sheth, AI Institute, University of South Carolina, USA

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New Book: "Deep Mediatization" by Andreas Hepp
by Leif Kramp 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '20

New Book: "Deep Mediatization" by Andreas Hepp Published by Routledge This book takes an integrative look at one of the biggest questions in media and communications research: how digital media is changing society. Often, such questions are discussed in isolation losing sight of the overarching context in which they are situated. Andreas Hepp has developed a theory of the re-figuration of society by digital media and their infrastructures and provides an understanding of how profound today’s media-related changes are, not only for institutions, organizations and communities, but for the individual as well. Rooted in the latest research, this book does not stop at a description of media-related change, instead it raises the normative challenge of what deep mediatization should look like so that it might just stimulate a “good life” for all. Providing original and critical research, the book introduces deep mediatization to students of media and cultural studies as well as neighbouring disciplines like sociology, political science and other cognate disciplines. José van Dijck (Utrecht U) says: “Andreas Hepp’s new book provides a profound and ‘deep’ reflection on how digital technologies have penetrated all aspects of our daily lives. His critical reflections cover not just the mediatization of institutions and infrastructures, but also of social and symbolic interactions. Scaffolded by quantitative and qualitative evidence, his argument that we are ushered into a new era of ‘deep mediatization’ is very convincing. Invaluable reading for anyone grappling with a global information order.” Karin Gwinn Wilkins (U Miami) writes: “With previous work by Hepp, Couldry and others we witness an essential conceptualization of mediatization that helps us understand contemporary communication landscapes. With this new edition, Hepp elaborates this framework in critical ways, reminding us that digital media more than channel our communication, but also create and reinforce new information, through our cultural practices, societal infrastructures, and institutional parameters. This is a powerful treatise, thoughtfully building on the most relevant and promising scholarship toward a positioning of communication theory that offers a significant critical argument on our most contemporary and concerning communication practices.” Silvio Waisbord (George Washington U) recommends: “Andreas Hepp has written a state-of-the-art, nuanced argument about the power of mediatization. Blending sociological sophistication and a critical eye, Hepp demonstrates the multiple and dynamics dimensions of mediatization. This book should be mandatory for media scholars grappling with how the media have transformed contemporary societies.” And Fred Turner (Stanford U) comments: "With Deep Mediatization, Andreas Hepp gives us a way to slip beneath the choppy surface of contemporary media and to see currents of social change that are stronger, older, and longer-lasting than many of us have imagined. This is social oceanography at its finest.“ Further information on the publisher's website: https://www.routledge.com/Deep-Mediatization-1st-Edition/Hepp/p/book/978113… <https://www.routledge.com/Deep-Mediatization-1st-Edition/Hepp/p/book/978113…> Hepp, Andreas (2020): Deep Mediatization. Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies. Routledge, 248 pages, 8 B/W illustrations, 24.99 GBP

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Summer Institute in Technology Ethics
by Don Heider 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

Summer Institute in Technology Ethics (SITE) at Santa Clara University July 27-August 7, 2020, Santa Clara, California Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR IN-RESIDENCE STUDY. We are now accepting applications for the in-residence SITE program from qualified graduate and post-graduate students in Philosophy and closely related fields. Thanks to the generosity of the Templeton World Charity Foundation, Inc. through a Diverse Intelligences grant, a stipend will be provided to all applicants who complete the in-residence program. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis starting on January 10, 2020, closing on January 26, 2020 Decision notifications will be sent by February 17, 2020. The in-residence program for grad students and postdocs will be led by internationally recognized faculty experts in AI ethics. In parallel, Markkula Center experts in technology and AI ethics will offer a non-residence curriculum for working technologists. These two SITE cohorts will have multiple opportunities to interact and collaborate as well as engage with other stakeholders in public fora, with the goal of enhancing the rigor and interdisciplinary character of moral expertise in AI and technology ethics shared by academics and working technologists. Program Faculty The in-residence program is co-led by two distinguished experts in AI ethics: *Shannon Vallor* (currently the Regis and Dianne McKenna Professor of Philosophy at Santa Clara University, and the incoming Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh) and *John Sullins* (Professor of Philosophy at Sonoma State University and co-Director of the Center for Ethics, Law and Society). Vallor received the World Technology Award for Ethics in 2015, and in 2011 Sullins was honored with the Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy by the International Association for Computing and Philosophy. Both have worked as consulting ethicists with technologists in industry and academia, and have provided ethics expertise to policymakers and public agencies worldwide. Visiting faculty will also include: *Safiya Noble* ( https://safiyaunoble.com/) *Aimee van Wynsberghe* ( https://aimeevanwynsberghe.com/) *David Danks *( https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/philosophy/people/faculty/danks.html) *Patrick Lin* ( https://www2.calstate.edu/csu-system/faculty-staff/outstanding-faculty/Page…) and *Rob Reich* (https://politicalscience.stanford.edu/people/rob-reich) You can find more information here: https://www.scu.edu/media/ethics-center/technology-ethics/SITE-Student-Appl… Don Heider Executive Director

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CFP: Human-Machine Communication Preconference at ICA 2020
by Andrea Guzman 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

Below is an abbreviated CFP for the Human-Machine Communication Preconference at ICA 2020 in Gold Coast, Australia. Full CFP available here: https://humanmachinecommunication.com Time/Date: 8:00-17:00, 21 May 2020 Location: On-site, Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre Cost: $75 faculty; $50 students Theme: Open Questions in Human-Machine Communication Brief description: The fifth annual pre-conference on Human-Machine Communication (HMC) aims to identify and explore the most pressing "open questions" surrounding communication between humans and technologies, such as chatbots, social robots and smart assistants. Scholars should address what they see as important open questions concerning the exchange of messages and creation of meaning between people and physical or virtual digital interlocutors, toward progressing theoretical and/or practical breakthroughs in relation to communication with these technologies and the discourses surrounding them. The pre-conference is open to all sorts of scholarship, both empirical and theoretical, quantitative and qualitative. Submissions might consider questions relating to: -Gender and communicative technologies such as chatbots, social robots and smart assistants -Accessibility to such technologies for people with disabilities -Uses to which communicative technologies are already being put and might be put in the future -Ethical questions around technologies that communicate in humanlike ways -Implications of integrating such technologies into people’s daily lives -Potential repercussions of the increasing deployment of communicative machines for societies more broadly -Specification of boundaries for convergence and divergence between human-human and human-machine communication practices -Power relations between chatbots, social robots, smart assistants and humans -Social representations and folk models of chatbots, social robots, and smart assistants Submission format: Papers, 750-1000 words excluding references. Submission deadline: 7 February 2020 Questions and submissions should be directed to Autumn Edwards, autumn.edwards(a)wmich.edu _______________ Andrea L. Guzman, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Northern Illinois University alguzman(a)niu.edu Inaugural chair, ICA Human-Machine Communication Interest Group: https://www.icahdq.org/group/hmc Recent Publications: Artificial Intelligence and communication: A Human-Machine Communication research agenda (with Seth C. Lewis) New Media & Society: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444819858691 Automation, journalism, and Human–Machine Communication: Rethinking roles and relationships of humans and machines in news (with Seth C. Lewis & Thomas R. Schmidt) Digital Journalism: https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2019.1577147 <https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2019.1577147> Human-Machine Communication: Rethinking Communication, Technology, & Ourselves: https://www.peterlang.com/view/title/64309?format=PBK

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From Hurricane to Earthquake: Puerto Rico Needs Your Help // Help Puerto Rico by Supporting RISE
by Yosem Companys 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

From: Marla Perez Lugo <marla(a)ncseglobal.org> Dear friends: I hope this email finds you well. In light of the recent seismic activity in PR, we write this message in an attempt to activate a community of interest within the RISE Network to participate in strategic activities of service to the people of PR. As you know, the RISE Network is supposed to work as a mesonet of universities serving as radars of local and regional vulnerabilities to leave “no blind spots”. We have an opportunity to act in a preemptive manner: 1. Identifying relevant expertise that can have an impact at this time of high uncertainty in the island; 2. Engage universities that have been doing work in PR post Maria to gather information and knowledge about vulnerabilities found on the ground, either in terms of physical infrastructure and/or social organization, etc.; 3. Put together a rapid response team that can make itself available to local colleagues, managers, communities, etc, to collaborate in activities such as public service announcements, press conferences, consulting, or other activities that local stakeholders see appropriate. I feel we have a lot to offer in this time of uncertainty. This is what the RISE Network is meant to do. We are on our way to Washington DC to participate in the NCSE Annual Conference. If you would like to be a part of this effort, please contact us as soon as possible. We will connect you with a group of local experts which is already designing educational, capacity building and public outreach efforts. Take care and see you soon Marla and Cecilio On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 6:25 PM Cecilio Ortiz García <cecilio(a)ncseglobal.org> wrote: > Good evening colleagues. I hope you all are well. Right now the > centrifugal forces of our multiple institutional commitments suck us back > in to finish the semester. The grading, putting out reports and > visualizing what the Spring of 2020 brings, overtake our agendas. While we > do not have a class load (thanks to Penn State) we are working hard to turn > all the data generated by RISE 2019 into a usable report. As such, we will > be convening several debrief sessions and analysis activities in the next > few weeks. I want to take a minute of your time to thank each and everyone > of you from the bottom of our hearts for the countless hours of > conversation, debate, arguments, proposals, presentations, meetings, etc. > all of you have so elegantly afforded us. After all the travels and visits > made to our friends in this email list, we are thankful that those > collaborative efforts have now been validated by the kind of successful > activity we all enjoyed at RISE 2019. I am forever in debt to President > Rodriguez and the outstanding Albany team and for Michelle and Valerie at > NCSE who’s unyielding level of commitment convinced us to take this leap of > faith along with our family. In fact, by virtue of the tremendous > investment in RISE 2019, President Rodriguez should have the honor of > passing the ceremonial “baton” to the next President that steps up to > continue the journey on the path he has so gallantly helped set RISE on. > > Today I do not want to talk about money. No funding euphemisms, business > models, fiscal schemes or financial arrangements. > I want to talk to you, our RISE close circle of friends and colleagues > that have either suggested hosting a workshop/observatory activity or > stepped up to support the sustainability of our fellowship. I would like to > have a conversation about concrete steps that with all of you we need to > take to successfully accelerate the obvious momentum the conference has > generated generated. > > I call your attention to several opportunities: > > 1) Our colleagues Dr. Daniel Soto (Sonoma State) and Cheri Chastain > (Sustainability Officer, UC-Chico) have made a call for the RISE Network to > design a workshop activity around socio-demographics pressures associated > to wildfires (Daniel and Cheri please correct me if I am missing the > correct issue definition) to occur this Spring 2020 in California before > the next wildfire season. This particular issue is a particularly wicked > one, connecting fire, water, energy, housing, migration, across > jurisdictions, social stakeholder groups and communities. We could > accompany our colleagues to make a call to the UC system and offer the RISE > Network’s collaboration. Certainly exploring wildfires as socio-ecological > hazards, have a lot to offer in the co production of new knowledge about > community resilience. > > 2) Professor Jacob Mans is spearheading an effort to bring the RISE > Network to collaborate around the serious issue of homelessness in > Minneapolis-Saint Paul Metro Area. Issues of energy security and justice, > housing, migration, public health, etc. convergence to make the > homelessness issue a nation wide threat to the health and wellbeing of our > communities. Similar the the wildfires, homelessness is a boundary object > with direct impact on community resilience. Let’s make ourselves available > to assist his efforts in perhaps putting a RISE workshop together on Spring > 2020. > > 3) Professor Isabel Rivera Collazo, one of our most valuable advocates on > the disaster research ethics area, has identified a modest amount of > funding towards furthering this discussion. I cannot underscore enough the > importance of formalizing the RISE Network protocols for disaster research > ethics and student mobility as climate refugees. These are the pillars of > the RISE concept and along with an ethics of peer to peer relationships, > constitute the foundation of what a RISE Network membership commitment is > all about. Perhaps Lori and Joan will find it beneficial to collaborate in > this event. > > 4)I had an opportunity to speak briefly about RISE in an outstanding > Sustainability Institute Workshop at Penn State this last week. The event > brought together key institutional stakeholders from a multiplicity of > disciplines, at multiple levels. There is I believe interest in exploring > the opportunity for Penn State to become a RISE Hub. As a Land Grant > institution, enhancing community resilience as a core mission, a possible > project could materialize that looks at PSU campuses as community > resilience collaboratories/observatories. While this might not be an > immediate project, it’s capacity to illustrate what becoming a RISE Hub > will be in the future is significant. > > Other conversations include colleagues at UTRGV about a 2021 workshop on > island resilience to be held at South Padre Island, and with colleagues at > UPR Mayaguez and Catholic University about a Caribbean Observatory and a PR > Hub respectively. These opportunities keep us hopeful that the momentum > RISE 2019 has generated will not die down soon. Our colleagues Cory and > Dean Vanegas have even mentioned Texas A&M as a possible future site for > RISE 2020! Whether Marla and I are or not able to see these promising > activities through before our fellowship ends it’s not the point. RISE is > much bigger than us. Today though, we’ll do whatever we can to push forward > the best all these efforts. We truly believe true leadership is shown by > taking positive steps in seeing these initiatives through. The value > proposition that RISE brings to each one of our universities, as Cory so > elegantly said it, is the opportunity for each one of our institutions to > show leadership nationwide through the RISE Network. The Network will be as > strong as its weakest link, and these colleagues at their own institutions > are telling what issues threaten the resilience of their communities. Let’s > step up! > > We will be putting our energy research hats for the next couple of days as > we visit NREL in Boulder Co. As such I would ask from all of you to check > your calendars to see if we could find a date to have a Skype or Zoom > meeting to discuss these events. Again, our California colleagues have an > obvious interest in us acting swiftly. Let us know what you think and what > would be a good date to have this meeting. If needed we can send a doodle > poll to check availability. > > Abrazos! > > Cecilio > > > -- > *Cecilio Ortiz Garcia, PhD* > Senior Fellow, RISE > National Council for Science and the Environment > 787-508-57766 | www.NCSEGlobal.org <http://www.ncseglobal.org/> | > @NCSEGlobal > > Join Us for the NCSE 2020 Annual Conference > <https://www.ncseglobal.org/conference> in Washington, D.C. > *Support NCSE 2020: Exhibit, Sponsor, or Collaborate* > > -- *Marla D. Perez Lugo, PhD* Senior Fellow, RISE National Council for Science and the Environment 202-804-7376 | www.NCSEGlobal.org <http://www.ncseglobal.org/> | @NCSEGlobal Sign up for email updates from NCSE <https://visitor.r20.constantcontact.com/manage/optin?v=001Ytl_fE6JQ_3b8Btwt…> *NCSE moved offices on December 6, 2019. * *Please note my new phone number and our new address: * *1776 Eye Street NW, Suite 750, Washington, D.C. 20006* See you at the NCSE 2020 Annual Conference <https://www.ncseglobal.org/conference> January 6–9, 2020 | Washington, D.C. *#NCSE2020 on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn* -- *Marla D. Perez Lugo, PhD* Senior Fellow, RISE National Council for Science and the Environment 202-804-7376 | www.NCSEGlobal.org <http://www.ncseglobal.org/> | @NCSEGlobal Sign up for email updates from NCSE <https://visitor.r20.constantcontact.com/manage/optin?v=001Ytl_fE6JQ_3b8Btwt…> *NCSE moved offices on December 6, 2019. * *Please note my new phone number and our new address: * *1776 Eye Street NW, Suite 750, Washington, D.C. 20006* See you at the NCSE 2020 Annual Conference <https://www.ncseglobal.org/conference> January 6–9, 2020 | Washington, D.C. *#NCSE2020 on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn*

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WEBCAST TODAY: EdTech and HigherEd: Considerations for Digital Accessibility
by Joly MacFie 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

First livestream of 2020! ISOC Live posted: "Today, Tuesday January 7 2020 at 7pm EST (00:00 UTC) the AccessibiltyNYC Meetup hosts EdTech and HigherEd: Considerations for Digital Accessibility at Thoughtbot in NYC. Presenter Zarina Mustapha is a Senior Front-end Developer and Accessibility Lead at t" [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/edtec>Today, *Tuesday January 7 2020* at *7pm EST* (00:00 UTC) the *AccessibiltyNYC Meetup <https://www.meetup.com/A11yNYC/>* hosts *EdTech and HigherEd: Considerations for Digital Accessibility <https://www.meetup.com/A11yNYC/events/267138464/>* at Thoughtbot in NYC. Presenter *Zarina Mustapha <https://twitter.com/zarinamustapha>* is a Senior Front-end Developer and Accessibility Lead at the *Center for Teaching and Learnin*g <http://ctl.columbia.edu> (CTL), Columbia University. *LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/edtech <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/edtech>* *YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/Y7c1JSpQxHs <https://youtu.be/Y7c1JSpQxHs>* *TWITTER: #highered @a11ynyc <http://bit.ly/36tpI77>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/11685/ - -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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CFP closing in less than 1 week for the 2020 Connected Learning Summit
by Jamieson Pond 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

Call for proposals closing in less than 1 week for the 2020 Connected Learning Summit Connected Learning Summit 2020 July 29-31, 2020 | Cambridge, MA Deadline for submissions: Monday, January 13, 2020 Notifications of Acceptance: April 2020 Call for proposals page: https://clsummit.news/CLScfpAIR Call for proposals now open for the third annual Connected Learning Summit. We encourage the submission of academic papers and project presentations as well as more innovative session formats which focus on digital technologies for learning, educational and commercial games and other media, innovative tech-infused curricula, and theoretical and/or empirical exploration of digital media and technology for learning. Abstracts from all session types will be included in the Connected Learning Summit Conference Proceedings. Research papers will be published in full, and subject to blind peer review. All other session formats will be subject to committee review. Accepting proposals for: - Research papers - Workshops - Showcases - Symposia - Well Played sessions - Hall of Failure - Posters - Tech demos - Ignite talks About the Connected Learning Summit The mission of the Connected Learning Summit is to fuel a growing movement of innovators harnessing emerging technology to expand access to participatory, playful, and creative learning. The Connected Learning Summit represents a merger between three community events with this shared vision and values: the Digital Media and Learning Conference, the Games+Learning+Society Conference, and Sandbox Summit. Respectfully, Jamieson Pond, Communications Manager Connected Learning Lab University of California, Irvine CLAlliance.org | ConnectedLearning.uci.edu Twitter: @TheCLAlliance | @TheCLSummit Fb.com/ConnectedLearningAlliance Connected Learning Newsletter ------------------------------ Connected Learning Summit 2020 July 29-31, 2020 | Cambridge, MA *Call for Proposals Open* Deadline: January 13, 2020

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