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Research fellow: Towards a Digital Sociology of Music
by Christopher Haworth 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

Research Fellow (Part Time) Department of Music, University of Birmingham, School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music within the College of Arts and Law Fixed term from 1st of April 2020 to 31st of March 2021 Grade: Grade 7, 30 or below pro rata https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BWB470/research-fellow This post will support *Music And The Internet: Towards A Digital Sociology of Music*, a project funded by the AHRC and led by Dr Christopher Haworth. DIGSOCMUS will explore the use of digital methods for the analysis of electronic music from the 1990s to the present, addressing research questions on the changing relations between art and popular electronic musics; ‘major’ and ‘independent’ labels; and local and transnational musicking in the age of the internet. The post will be centred on devising bespoke digital methods to further the analysis of the research questions. These may involve text-mining and social data analysis techniques, and the postholder will be expected to analyse, interpret and visualise data using Gephi or an equivalent network visualisation software. The postholder will be expected to participate in workshops and other events associated with the research project, and to produce and present research papers in seminars and at conferences. You should have completed a PhD in music computing, music technology, digital humanities, computer science or a related field, and you should have an interest in one of the following fields: twentieth-century music, digital music, electronic music, media history, or ethnomusicology. The Department of Music recognises that scholars and practitioners from minority backgrounds are under-represented in music-related fields. We welcome applications from all candidates regardless of gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and/or transgender status. Informal enquiries should be directed to Christopher Haworth at c.p.haworth(a)bham.ac.uk / 0121 414 6177

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Call for Submissions– Privacy Camp 2020: Technology and Activism (deadline 10 November)
by Imge Ozcan 07 Nov '19

07 Nov '19

*Privacy Camp 2020: Technology and Activism* *21 January 2020 – Brussels, Belgium* *(https://privacycamp.eu <https://privacycamp.eu>)* *Call for Submissions* For the 8th edition, Privacy Camp takes “Technology and Activism” as its focus. Over the last decade, digital technologies have played a significant role in activism by mobilising social protests, fostering new forms of civil disobedience, or simply by facilitating the coordination of activist work in the analogue world. Some scholars assigned particular value to the networked nature of cyberspace, arguing that this structure enables people to communicate and take action outside of traditional hierarchical power structures. However, networked information systems also enhance the surveillance power of repressive regimes. Going beyond cyber-optimist and cyber-pessimist arguments, Privacy Camp 2020 will seek to explore further dynamics in the activist-technology entanglements. Together with activists from diverse fields and scholars working at the intersection of technology and activism, Privacy Camp 2020 will cover a broad range of practices and issues including surveillance, censorship, civic participation in information policy making, social media and political dissent, online civil disobedience, data justice, data activism, commons and peer production, citizen science and more. *Participate!* For this edition, we call for (1) panel proposals and (2) critical making and DIY projects (see further below). *1. Call for Panels* We welcome panel proposals relating to the broad theme of “technology and activism”. We also welcome alternative types of sessions such as workshops or formats with more interaction between the participants than a traditional panel. We are particularly interested in proposals on the following topics: • social media and political dissent • hacktivism and civil disobedience • critical public sphere and hashtag publics (e.g. #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter etc) • data justice and data activism • commons, peer production, and platform cooperativism • citizen science *Submission guidelines:* • Indicate a clear objective for your session, i.e. what would be a good outcome for you? • Include a list of speakers that could participate in your panel (and let us know which speaker has already confirmed, at least in principle, to participate). • Make it as interactive as possible, think about how to include the audience and diverse actors. Note that the average panel length is 75 minutes. • Send your proposal (a panel description of max 400 words and a tentative list of speakers) to privacycamp <privacycamp(a)edri.org>@edri.org <privacycamp(a)edri.org> <privacycamp(a)edri.org>by 10 November. *Deadline for panel proposal submissions: 10 November 2019 (hard deadline, no extension)* After the deadline, we will review your submissions and will notify you about the selection process before 20 November. Please note that we might suggest merging panel proposals if they are very similar. *2. Call for Makers: Critical Maker Faire at Privacy Camp 2020* We are pleased to invite makers, disruptors, tinkerers, crafters and DIY artists with the aim of bringing even more diverse communities into the conversation on technology and activism. Maker cultures attempt to democratise technology by focusing on production and consumption patterns and citizen engagement in technology design. We seek makers who create with the ethos of counterculture and activism – in distinction from those who align with innovation and entrepreneurship. We will provide an exhibit space for makers working at the intersection of technology and activism. Makers will be able to engage participants and hold experiments. Possible maker projects may include, but are not limited to: DIY hardware, biohacking tools, wearables, bots, DIY air quality sensors, experiments with glitch and stitch. *If you are interested to submit your work for the Critical Maker Faire, please contact us at privacycamp(a)edri.org <privacycamp(a)edri.org> before 30 November 2019.* *About Privacy Camp* Privacy Camp is jointly organised by European Digital Rights (EDRi), Research Group on Law, Science, Technology & Society at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (LSTS-VUB), the Institute for European Studies at Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles (USL-B), and Privacy Salon. *Privacy Camp 2020 will take place on 21 January 2020 in Brussels, Belgium.* Participation is free and registrations will open in early December. For inquiries, please contact Andreea Belu at andreea.belu(at)edri(dot)org or Imge Ozcan at imge.ozcan(at)vub(dot)be. -- Imge Ozcan Doctoral Researcher Research Group on Law, Science, Technology & Society (LSTS) Vrije Universiteit Brussel imge.ozcan(a)vub.be https://lsts.research.vub.be/en/imge-ozcan

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CFP: UMUAI - Special Issue on Recommender Systems for Health and Wellbeing
by Christoph Trattner 07 Nov '19

07 Nov '19

** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** *Apologies for multiple postings* -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (UMUAI - IF: 3.400) SPECIAL ISSUE Recommender Systems for Health and Wellbeing Website: https://healthrecsys.github.io/umuai/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- ** Motivation and Scope ** ===================== Information systems developed with the purpose of keeping us healthy and increasing our general wellbeing have grown in popularity and adoption in the last years. Recommender Systems have an integral part in these systems attempting to improve our awareness, understanding and behavior regarding our own health and general wellbeing. Popular as they are, these application areas bring new challenges into the recommender systems community, e.g. recommendations that influence the health status of a patient may have legal consequences and as such, often need to involve a human in the loop to make sure the recommendations provided are sound. Aspects focusing on liability, user trust, as well as privacy, are key factors in these systems as well. ** Topics ** ===================== This special issue focuses on topics around recommendation and personalization in the health and wellbeing domain, from the perspectives of users, vendors, as well as society at large. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Algorithms and Recommendation Strategies - Pervasive Systems - Domain Knowledge Representation - Personalization - Regulations and Standards - Behavioral Interventions - Medical Evaluation Techniques - Persuasion/Nudging/Behavioral Change - User Profiling - Fairness - Gamification and Serious Games - Adherence - Trust - Empowerment - Explanations - Patient needs and satisfaction - User interaction design - Human/Expert-in-the-loop - Privacy - Ethics ** Submission ** ===================== Authors must submit an extended abstract via EasyChair by the deadline indicated below. It must be at most 3 pages long, not counting references, and formatted according to the journal template. The guest editors of the special issue will then screen all submitted extended abstracts and will invite authors of submissions that pass this screening to submit a full manuscript to be submitted via the journal’s submission system. UMUAI formatting guidelines are available here: http://www.umuai.org/submission.shtml#instructions The abstract submission needs to be done through EasyChair. After abstracts have been accepted, the final full submission needs to be done through the UMUAI journal submission system: http://www.springer.com/computer/hci/journal/11257 ** Schedule ** ===================== - Abstract Submission: November 15th, 2019 - Abstract Notification: December 15th, 2019 - Full Paper Submission: March 15th, 2020 - Author Notification: April 15th, 2020 - Revised Version: July 15th, 2020 - Final Notification: August 15th, 2020 - Camera Ready Version: September 15th, 2020 ** Guest Editors ** ===================== Alan Said (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Hanna Schäfer (University of Konstanz, Germany) Christoph Trattner (University of Bergen, Norway) -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dipl.-Ing. Dr.techn. Christoph Trattner BSc Associate Professor University of Bergen Department of Information Science and Media Studies Fosswinckelsgt. 6, 5007 Bergen, Norway E-mail: christoph.trattner(a)uib.no Tel: +43 650 2402801 Homepage: http://christophtrattner.info -------------------------------------------------------

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ICPSR hiring data curators
by Libby Hemphill 06 Nov '19

06 Nov '19

A unit of the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) <https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/> is an international membership organization, with over 700 institutions from around the world, providing access to empirical social science data for research and teaching. The atmosphere is collegial with a work environment that fosters communication and networking, incorporates a diverse staff with varying skills and experiences and offers family-friendly flexibility with work hours. We are family-friendly, offering flexible work hours, and we have a diverse staff that enriches the workplace with their experience. The atmosphere is collegial with a work environment that fosters communication and networking, incorporates a diverse staff with varying skills and experiences, and offers flexibility with work hours. Job Summary The core charge of a Data Curator is to gain a functional understanding of research studies using the data and documentation deposited and convey that understanding to secondary researchers through the creation of summary descriptions, metadata and other study documents. The Data Curator reports to the Data Curation Supervisor. Responsibilities* Specific responsibilities for this entry-level position involve: Prepare social science research data and related materials for permanent archiving and sharing by: - Reviewing data for issues related to respondent confidentiality - Using SPSS, SAS or Stata to review, clean, recode, and verify research data - Compiling and editing research documentation - Structuring data and documentation files into ICPSR archival products for release and cataloging through the ICPSR Web site - Writing study-level metadata descriptions - Preparing data and documentation for use with online data analysis tools - Working with team members and conducting peer work reviews - Communicating with ICPSR staff and external partners - Communicating with ICPSR staff in other units, data producers, and depositors to resolve issues of incompleteness - Communicating project status and discussing project priorities with supervisor - Answering data users' questions about the data collections as needed Required Qualifications* - Bachelor’s degree in social science or a related field - Knowledge of social science research methods and survey design - Experience in data management including cleaning, recoding, merging or subsetting data, and performing descriptive statistical procedures - Experience with any of the following programs: SAS, SPSS (PSPP), Stata, R, SQL, Excel (for data management, i.e., can perform complex functions, can write advanced macros, etc.) - Experience reading and summarizing technical documents - Experience organizing and prioritizing assignments, and applying oral and written instructions and procedures Additional Information Additional InformationWork Schedule Monday-Friday, days. Benefits In addition to a career filled with purpose and opportunity, The University of Michigan offers a comprehensive benefits package to help you stay well, protect yourself, and your family and plan for a secure future. Benefits include: generous time off; a retirement plan that provides two-for-one matching contributions with immediate vesting; many choices for comprehensive health insurance; life insurance; and long-term disability coverage; and flexible spending accounts for healthcare and dependent care expenses. The Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan seeks to recruit and retain a diverse workforce as a reflection of our commitment to serve the diverse people of Michigan, to maintain the excellence of the university, and to ground our research in varied disciplines, perspectives, and ways of knowing and learning. Salary $38,000 If you would like to apply for this position please visit the University of Michigan of Michigan Careers <http://careers.umich.edu/job_detail/179603/data_curator> website. The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Libby Hemphill pronouns: she/her/hers Director, Resource Center for Minority Data <http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/RCMD>, ICPSR <http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/> Research Associate Professor, Institute for Social Research <http://home.isr.umich.edu/> Associate Professor, School of Information <https://www.si.umich.edu/> University of Michigan

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EURovision 2020
by Simone Driessen 06 Nov '19

06 Nov '19

Hi all, We’re organizing “EURovision 2020” - a conference exploring music, identity, media, and politics in light of the Eurovision Song Contest Location: Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands When: 6-7 May, 2020 In 2020, the Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where it will continue its storied tradition as a media event, television show, and social happening. The event displays both the bridging and bonding capabilities of popular music and hence offers a unique opportunity to collectively explore the role popular music plays in the fast-changing landscape of contemporary culture. This conference aims to bring together scholars from various countries, each with their own perspective, to engage in an international exchange of ideas and current research insights about music production and reception. We invite scholars to join us in Rotterdam 2020 for a two-day conference on popular music research and, more specifically (but not limited to), all that the Eurovision Song Contest places on the scholarly agenda. We welcome cases around Eurovision and more generally, on music fan cultures, festivals, performances, and (media/ television) events. The staging of the ESC invites reflections on music festivals, media events, television’s past and present, fan activity and involvement, and potentially much more. As cities and nations increasingly look to brand themselves through music festivals and experiences, the ESC stands as one of the most prominent examples of the past, present, and future of such trends. While claiming to be “non-political,” the contest reflects wider political developments, raising questions about what it means to belong in this part of the world. Investigating Eurovision means exploring the in/exclusion of certain countries in popular media, their depictions on screen and stage, and the relation of politics and/or language to music and the music industry. The event also invites analyses on how music consumers and avid fans make sense of their (and others’) identity through music (e.g. diversity of the acts/audiences, queerness of performances, or discussions of LGBTQ-rights surrounding events). In essence, the ESC offers a unique opportunity to examine the changing media landscape, identity, nationality, and (geo)politics, not only when addressing the contest itself, but in looking at these issues throughout the contemporary and historical media environment. We invite papers that address diverse themes around the ESC, but not limited to the contest itself, such as: - history, traditions and policies - reception of the event in Europe and other continents - role of music in politics, society, nationality, diversity and/or identity - question on inequalities, specifically class/status, race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality and disability - the commercial music industry vis-a-vis DIY-practices - analysis of sentiments, nostalgia, (anti-)fandom - sexuality and queer viewing practices - performances, costumes and staging - related notions of camp, kitsch and drag - ‘festivalization’, social media and liveness - discussion on (ironic) viewership, television, second screens and streaming - data analysis of tweets and other material, the social audience To further stimulate academic debate on the topic of the ESC and music, identity, media and politics at large, the conference includes two keynotes. These will be announced shortly. Please submit an abstract of max. 250 words (plus 3 key words to help classify your submission) and a short biography (including your name, email address, institutional affiliation and position) by December 20 2019, to eurovision(a)eshcc.eur.nl<mailto:eurovision@eshcc.eur.nl>. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out before January 17. There is a fee of 80,00€, which covers participations costs (including lunch and refreshments). There will be an optional conference dinner. We encourage (research/master/PhD) students to apply: please indicate if you’re a student to ‘win’ a scholarship that waves the conference fee. Any questions? Feel free to reach out to the organizing committee: Nicolle Lamerichs (Utrecht University of Applied Sciences), Abby Waysdorf (Utrecht University), Julian Schaap (Erasmus University Rotterdam), or Simone Driessen (Erasmus University Rotterdam) via eurovision(a)eshcc.eur.nl<mailto:eurovision@eshcc.eur.nl>. Dr. Simone Driessen Lecturer in Media & Communication, ESHCC Visiting address Erasmus University Rotterdam Van der Goot Building/ Room M8-48 T: 0031 (10) 408 2468 I am unable to answer emails outside working hours Monday to Friday. I endeavour to respond to student emails within one working day. Friday is my research day, and I will not be responding to emails on that day.

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Invitation to public lecture, Nov 19 6.30pm: Will the UK be the "Safest" Place in the World to Go Online?
by Livingstone,S 06 Nov '19

06 Nov '19

[https://gallery.mailchimp.com/8c315702f22b9102f36a38d5e/images/34b63e45-a00…] Will the UK be the "Safest" Place in the World to Go Online? (And do we want it to be?) Tuesday 19 November 6:30pm-8:00pm Sheikh Zayed Theatre LSE New Academic Building 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields London WC2A 3LJ More information<https://lse.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c315702f22b9102f36a38d5e&id=…> A year after the report of the LSE Commission on Truth, Trust and Technology<https://lse.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c315702f22b9102f36a38d5e&id=…> was published, this panel will discuss how ideas about regulating social media and other online services have developed in the UK and internationally, interrogating the UK government's assertion that Britain is to become the 'safest' place in the world to be online. The panel will be followed by a drinks reception. Speakers: Madeleine de Cock Buning is Professor of Media and Communications Law at the University of Utrecht and Professor of Digital Politics, Economy and Societies at the School of Transnational Governance of the European University Institute. Robin Mansell (@REMVAN<https://lse.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c315702f22b9102f36a38d5e&id=…>) is Professor of New Media and the Internet in the Department of Media and Communications at the LSE. Victor Pickard (@VWPickard<https://lse.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c315702f22b9102f36a38d5e&id=…>) is Associate Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Chair: Sonia Livingstone (@Livingstone_S<https://lse.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c315702f22b9102f36a38d5e&id=…>) is Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Media and Communications at the LSE. Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEt3 For more details see http://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2019/11/20191119t1830vSZT/will-the-uk<https://lse.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8c315702f22b9102f36a38d5e&id=…>

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CFP: Convergence Special Issue on “Digital Placemaking”
by Erika Polson 05 Nov '19

05 Nov '19

CFP: Convergence Special Issue - “Digital Placemaking” Guest editors: Germaine Halegoua (University of Kansas, USA) and Erika Polson (University of Denver, USA) Deadline for Abstract Submissions: December 31, 2019 Deadline for Full Papers: May 1, 2020 Expected date of publication: April 2021 We invite submissions for a special issue of Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies on the topic of Digital Placemaking. As digital and physical environments converge, each increasingly producing the norms and parameters of the other, it is important to consider how the drive to create and control a sense of place remains primary to how social actors identify with each other and express their identities, and how communities organize to build more meaningful, connected spaces. Instead of depleting a sense of place, the ability to forge attachments to digital media environments and through digital practices enables people to emplace themselves and others. The increasing mobility of people, goods and services, information, and capital contribute to the impression of a world in flux where the “space of flows” dominates the “space of places,” while at the more personal scale, multiplying public and private uses of digital media have produced varied discourses on the potential for these practices to dissociate or liberate users from co-present environments. The implication of these perspectives is that our collective sense of place has been disrupted, leaving people unsure of their belonging within conditions and boundaries that seem increasingly fluid. While it is imperative to attend to the shifting social, economic, and political conditions that give rise to such concerns, it is also necessary to recognize the many ways people actually use digital media to negotiate differential mobilities and become placemakers. This special issue introduces and critically examines the concept of “digital placemaking” as practices that create emotional attachments to place through digital media use. As populations and the texts they produce become increasingly mobile, such practices are proliferating, and a striking array of applications and uses have emerged which exploit the affordances of mobile and digital media to foster an ability to navigate, understand, connect to, and gain a sense of belonging and familiarity in place. Papers are invited to investigate the concept of “digital placemaking” as both a theoretical and applied response to the spatial fragmentation, emerging virtual and physical environments, and community reorganizations thought to have accompanied the speed and scale of globalization. The editors welcome contributions that explore questions such as: ● How do people employ digital media to create and negotiate a new sense of place within rapidly changing media landscapes and socio-spatial exchanges? ● How does digital placemaking as a research approach or theoretical framework uncover novel socio-cultural-technical practices and understandings of sense of place? ● How are boundary crossing and place transgressions implicated in tensions related to tourism, gentrification, migration, and emerging media? ● How can scholars investigate digital placemaking to reflect nuances of interrelated online and offline practices? ● What are key characteristics and configurations of digital placemaking within particular communities or institutions? ● How can digital placemaking be employed as an innovative approach to studying digital media technologies and practices? ● What does a focus on digital placemaking help us understand about issues including: mobile rights and risks associated with migration and diaspora; creative tactics within social and mobile media regarding tourism and travel; the design of physical places and experiences; and contested mobilities based on social power and access to digital infrastructures? ● How does the concept or framework of digital placemaking uncover tactics and forces that coordinate, govern, and express mobilities within digital infrastructures and imaginaries? We are open to a range of approaches in exploring this concept, and particularly welcome submissions that address locations and digital placemaking practices in the global south. TO SUBMIT: Please send a 500-word abstract and a 100-word bio to the guest editors at grhalegoua(a)ku.edu and epolson(a)du.edu by December 31, 2019 Authors of accepted abstracts will be contacted in early January and invited to submit full contributions by May 1, 2020. -- Erika Polson, Ph.D. Associate Professor Media, Film & Journalism Studies University of Denver

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Call for Papers: Use of online videos for science and research communication
by Allgaier, Joachim 05 Nov '19

05 Nov '19

Dear Colleagues, Asheley R. Landrum (Texas Tech University) and I are curating a Research Topic on the use of online videos for science and research communication for Frontiers publishers. We are looking for papers to be published in the following journals: · Frontiers in Communication Section - Science and Environmental Communication · Frontiers in Environmental Science Section - Science and Environmental Communication · Frontiers in Human Dynamics Section - Digital Impacts If the Research Topic receives at least 10 contributions, Frontiers will produce an additional e-book of the collection once all of the manuscripts have completed the review process. Submission of Abstracts are due 1 January 2020. Full Manuscripts are due 1 July 2020. Please submit abstracts and full manuscripts at http://bit.ly/SciCommVideo. Frontiers publications are available open access. Fee Waivers are available for this Research Topics if the author(s) have no institutional affiliation or if the author(s) don't have the means to cover the fee charges. I include more information about our research topic below. Please also visit http://bit.ly/SciCommVideo. Best, Joachim Allgaier -------------- New Directions in Science and Environmental Communication: Understanding the Role of Online Video-Sharing and Online Video-Sharing Platforms for Science and Research Communication Background In this Research Topic we are interested in the impact of online video-sharing on the public communication of science and the environment, but also on intra-scientific communication and practice. The online video format has great potential for science and environmental communication, but there are also potential problems and pitfalls that need to be reflected. We are interested in the role of online video-sharing platforms, such as YouTube, Vimeo and others, for the public communication of science and research. Production We are looking for various perspectives on the production of online videos, i.e. who creates and uploads videos with scientific and environmental contents and what are the intentions and purposes of these videos? What are the differences and similarities between professional, amateur, institutional and other actors who produce online videos? How do the different creators of videos about science and the environment legitimize themselves and what audiences do they want to reach and for what reasons? What are the differences in practices and intentions of journalists, YouTubers, scientists, scientific institutions and others when it comes to online video-sharing? Content Which scientific and environmental topics and what kinds of research and knowledge are represented in publicly available online videos and which are not? Are there certain scientific disciplines that use online videos for public and/ or intra-scientific communication more often than others? What kind of video formats, genres, videographic styles etc. are most successful, widespread and adequate for science and environmental communication? How can the quality of scientific online videos be assessed? What role do misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories play in online videos about scientific and environmental topics and what could be done to successfully counteract erroneous and problematic video content? Can differences concerning topics, frames or aesthetic aspects be found and analyzed, and if so how? What are the differences between the online videos of professional, amateur, institutional and other user/ producer cultures? Are there differences in the online videos from diverse geographical locations, languages and disciplinary communities? Audiences, reception and communities How are online videos on science and the environment perceived by various audiences? Do scientists and researchers also make use of the online-video format, and if so, how and why? How do different audiences make sense of the online videos they are watching and how do they affect perceptions, knowledge and attitudes? How do different users seek and find online videos about science and the environment and how do they assess the credibility of the videos? What communities emerge around specific video channels featuring science and environmental online videos and how do various audiences/ communities and video creators interact? What is the role of specific online video-sharing platforms for the dissemination, recommendation and practices of environmental and science communication via online video? Methodological innovations What quantitative, qualitative, computational and other methods could be used to study scientific and environmental online-videos and practices of online video-sharing? Practical perspectives We are also interested in perspectives of online video practitioners or researchers and others who experimented with online videos for science and environmental communication. We also welcome case studies and the experiences of science YouTubers and experience reports of exchanges with scientists, scientific institutions, journalists, filmmakers and others who use online videos for environmental and science communication. We are looking for various types of contributions and articles types that address these and related questions and issues. Article types Frontiers in Communication: Section - Science and Environmental Communication https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication/sections/science-and-env… Frontiers in Environmental Sciences: Section - Science and Environmental Communication https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/environmental-science#article-types Frontiers in Human Dynamics: Section - Digital Impacts https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-dynamics#article-types PS: If you are interested in science/environmental communication on YouTube these two links might also be of interest: Allgaier, J. (2019): Science and Environmental Communication on YouTube: Strategically Distorted Communications in Online Videos on Climate Change and Climate Engineering. Frontiers in Communication, 4:36. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2019.00036 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2019.00036/full Science communication online: The influence of YouTube and the youtubing of influencers https://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/2019/10/18/science-commu… -- Dr. Joachim Allgaier Senior Researcher Human Technology Center (HumTec) Chair of Society and Technology RWTH Aachen University Theaterplatz 14 /Raum 235 52062 Aachen /Germany Twitter: @JoachimAllgaier Web: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joachim_Allgaier

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"Disrupting technology" conference, Leeds, January 2020
by Xanthe Whittaker 05 Nov '19

05 Nov '19

Dear colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting. This is just to let you know that the registration link for attendees is now open and details can be found here: https://business.leeds.ac.uk/research-ceric/events/event/448/a-two-day-conf… We are very pleased to announce that the keynotes for the event will be Janine Berg and Enda Brophy. Details of plenary tbc. Best Xanthe ________________________________ Disrupting technology: contextualising continuity and change in technology, work and employment 16-17th January, Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change, University of Leeds Recent scholarship on the relationship between technology and work has often tended to accentuate new technologies’ supposed transformative effects. Conferences on work and employment often feature streams dedicated solely to new technologies – such as platforms or AI – segregated from other streams where technology is mentioned very little. This both narrows our understandings of what constitutes ‘technology’ and contributes to the renewed growth of technological determinism, both in its utopian or dystopian variants- from Fully Automated Luxury Communism” on one hand to a nightmare of total surveillance on the other. Such debates are often speculative and can serve to obscure how actually existing employment relations are being shaped by new technologies. The Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change (CERIC) at Leeds University Business School is pleased to announce a call for papers for a two day event in January 2020 relating to these questions. This workshop calls for more careful, empirically grounded, theorisations of technology, its novelty and its impact on work and employment relations. We ask that contributions recognise the influence of conflicted interests and actions by managers, workers, the state and other social actors on the patterns, processes and outcomes of technological innovation. By devoting more attention to contextualising and historicising the relationship between technology and work, we ask contributors to develop more critical accounts of the extent of transformation and disruption, vis-à-vis entrenchment or continuity of existing social relations and employment relationships. Beyond the technology itself, what is genuinely novel and transformative about automation, AI or ‘platformisation’, which more mundane technologies might we be missing from the analysis? We welcome contributions of themes including: 1. The state, regulation and new technology 2. Historical research on the introduction of new technologies of work 3. Management, resistance, organization, and technology 4. Occupations, skills, professions, and technology 5. Inequalities (race, gender, (dis)ability) and technology 6. Methods for studying work and technology – towards a research agenda Submission details Registration will be £100 for full academic staff and £50 for PhD students, with an optional £25 for the conference meal. Dr Xanthe Whittaker Postdoctoral Research Fellow Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change (CERIC) Leeds University Business School University of Leeds LS2 9JT e: x.whittaker(a)leeds.ac.uk t: 0113 3436718 m: 07901335613 @XantheWhittaker

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New Issue & CFPs - Exchanges: Interdisciplinary Research Journal
by Johnson, Gareth 05 Nov '19

05 Nov '19

Dear all, The latest issue of Exchanges (v7.1), the early career research focussed interdisciplinary journal, has just been published. It includes two new calls for submissions on (1) Any topic suitable for a broad early career researcher audience or (2) aspects or interpretations on the theme of 'falsehoods, misinterpretations & factual divergence'. Ø Issue: https://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/issue/view/26 Ø CPF: https://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/announcement/view/18 Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal (ISSN 2053-9665) is a scholar-led, peer-reviewed, diamond open access, interdisciplinary, online-only journal dedicated to the publication of high-quality work by researchers in all disciplines. Published since 2013 by Warwick's renowned Institute for Advanced Study, the title particularly attracts innovative research articles from emerging domain experts and early career researchers, but also seeks to publish scholarly work by authors who combine research with academic teaching or other professional employment. Additionally, Exchanges has a developmental mission to work with new authors in developing their authorial voices. See our site or contact any member of the Board for more details. With thanks Gaz --- Dr Gareth (Gaz) J Johnson Managing Editor-in-Chief, Institute of Advanced Study, Zeeman Building, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias/ T: +44 (0)24 765 74423 (extn 74423) E: gareth.johnson(a)warwick.ac.uk<mailto:gareth.johnson@warwick.ac.uk> B: https://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/exchangesias/ Tw: @ExchangesIAS<https://twitter.com/ExchangesIAS> --- Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal https://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/

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