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CFP: Technology, Inequality, Media & Arts - Poetics
by Ticona, Julia 11 Sep '25

11 Sep '25

Dear colleagues, We warmly invite abstract submissions of empirical papers on Technology & Inequality in Culture, Media and the Arts for the journal Poetics<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/poetics__…>. Check out the CFP below. Thank you! CfP:Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts<https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/platform/poeticstechissue> A Special Issue of Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts Editors: Julia Ticona (University of Pennsylvania), Alondra Nelson (Institute for Advanced Study), Angèle Christin (Stanford University). In the summer of 2023, Hollywood writers and actors went on the longest joint strike since the 1960s, joined not long after by similar actions from voice and video game actors. Bollywood stars have begun including AI clauses in contracts, and the European artists who dub Hollywood movies for audiences on the continent have fought back against the use of automated voiceovers. These organized labor disputes have put a spotlight on the role of generative artificial intelligence technologies in disruptions, both actual and future, to creative and cultural work and cultural industries. The relative success of these union campaigns underscored that labor relations and the evolving conditions of creative and cultural work remain central to any critical analysis of technology-mediated society. However, the technological and social transformations at stake extend far beyond AI-driven automation and strikes to encompass the broader digital infrastructures mediating contemporary cultural life. Technologies that create, curate, distribute, and shape cultural consumption - including but not limited to the rise of platforms that birthed both new kinds of artists, and new forms of fame and influence, to COVID-spurred uses of technologies to accommodate newly home-bound ways of working - are reshaping not only creative industries but also everyday practices of cultural participation and meaning-making. These shifts intersect with platform capitalism’s consolidation of cultural production, while simultaneously reconfiguring cultural hierarchies and creating new forms of social stratification. These shifts can include both paid and unpaid labor, within formal organizations and outside of them. This special issue of Poetics seeks to advance our understanding of how a broad array of intertwining developments in digital and data-intensive technologies are reshaping cultural production across diverse creative fields. We invite submissions that employ robust empirical methods to examine how these technologies are reshaping processes of cultural creation, circulation, and evaluation, with particular attention to their implications for creative labor and social inequalities. Key Areas of Interest This special issue invites interdisciplinary contributions that situate their papers across fields, including but not limited to sociology, media studies, communication, and related social sciences. Substantive research questions may address a range of topics; however, we expect all submissions to engage conceptually with the themes of both inequality and technology. This special issue invites theoretically informed empirical contributions using qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methodologies. Empirical abstracts should include a clear description of the methods employed and a theoretical framing that situates the paper within or across the scholarly disciplines and literatures within the scope of the special issue. Abstracts should also indicate what scholarly literatures the paper aims to draw on and contribute to. Gatekeepers & Inequalities: How are traditional cultural gatekeepers responding to challenges raised by new ways of working with technologies? What new forms of gatekeeping status and taste have emerged alongside new means of cultural production and consumption? How have these shifts affected the hierarchies that sort high from low-brow forms of art and entertainment? Privileged and marginalized cultural workers and organizations? Technologies-in-use: How are practicing artists and media-makers using, refusing, or working around different configurations of technologies and other artistic tools? How do practices of daily use, unconstrained by platform or media type, blend and bend technologies to meet diverse artistic ends or subvert constraints imposed by material constraints? How are media makers embodied relationships to their work and tools shaped by changing work practices? How do artists and media-makers understand the power of tech companies and their position within media ecosystems? Work & Value: How are collective understandings of the value of creative work shifting? How are AI and other technologies interacting with existing political economies of precarity? Including, the shifting boundaries between paid and unpaid labor? This may include creatives' own understandings of their work, as well as analyses of the “back-end” of these technologies, including the creative works used to train AI systems. How does the integration of these technologies into creative practice raise issues surrounding ideas of intellectual property, theft, and fair use? Culture(s) of Governance: How are the institutions that sell and evaluate art, fund and train artists, and regulate art worlds reshaping hierarchies and understandings of the rules of art and media? What are the legal, cultural, and political frames shaping contests between states, sectors, and institutional actors surrounding the creation or reformation of rules surrounding art and media? International & Cross-Cultural Dynamics: How do these technological shifts play out differently across national, regional, or cultural contexts? How do they work to reconfigure geopolitical hierarchies and/or solidarities? What are the implications for cultural imperialism, local creative economies, or national cultural practices? Timeline & Considerations: Abstracts should be emailed to poeticstechissue(a)gmail.com<mailto:poeticstechissue@gmail.com> by December 1st 2025, by 11:59pm EST. Abstracts (750-1000 words, excluding references) due by December 1st 2025, by 11:59pm EST. Decisions will be communicated by March 1st 2026, by 11:59pm EST. Full papers are due by June 5th 2026, by 11:59pm EST, in advance of a virtual workshop. Virtual Workshop will be held in late June/early July - Participation in the virtual workshop is mandatory for inclusion in the resulting special issue, final date will be sent to all authors upon abstract acceptance. All participants will be expected to read and offer constructive feedback to a small number of fellow participants and will receive feedback from special issue editors. Full revised papers due by October 31st, by 11:50pm EST, for peer-review. Each author will be expected to peer-review a paper for the special issue. Note: If your article is selected and you’d like to publish Open Access, Elsevier (Poetics’ publisher) charges an article processing fee of $3730. Some universities/colleges have agreements with some publishers to cover or discount this fee. Please check with the librarians at your institution to understand if your fees may be covered. If needed, the editorial team will assist authors with up to $1865 of this fee. Depending on the final manuscripts accepted and author needs, we may be able to provide further assistance. You may choose for your article to be published for subscription only, and there is no article processing fee. Julia Ticona Assistant Professor Annenberg School for Communication Department of Sociology, by Courtesy University of Pennsylvania juliaticona.com

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CFP: What is Research? (2026)
by Janet Wasko 11 Sep '25

11 Sep '25

What is Research? (2026) will bring together scholars to explore various natures, purposes, and roles of research across disciplines, fields, and areas. The event will consider frameworks of systematic and creative inquiry, including methods, designs, analyses, discoveries, collaborations, dissemination, ethics, integrity, pluralism, media/technologies, and information environments. The thirteenth What is…? gathering delves into research in its many forms, including searching, critically investigating, and re-examining existing knowledge, as well as emerging functions and procedures in machine intelligence and computation. It will highlight pluralities of research pathways, examining time-honored approaches and new ways of knowing, precedents, issues, and futures. It considers challenges and possibilities that researchers face in today’s rapidly changing world, and ways to promote ethical, accessible, and impactful research. Scholars, government and community officials, scientists, artists, students, filmmakers, grassroots community organizations, public sector and industry professionals, and the public are invited to collaborate. Proposals that take a transdisciplinary perspective are especially encouraged, drawing on insights and methods from multiple fields to shed new light on research processes. Presentations / panels / installations / experiential art may include these topics (as well as others): • How does research and creative scholarship emerge from inquiry? How do they impact society? • What are relationships between theory, method, and practice in research? • What are qualitative, quantitative, multimethod, multimodal, participatory & arts-based approaches? • What influences research design and data analysis? • What are issues involved in validation (e.g., reproducibility, replicability, and cross-validating)? • What are various modes of collaboration and how can they be organized? • What are some considerations in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research? • How are integrations of natural & artificial intelligence with quantum computing affecting research? • What are environmental considerations of developments in machine learning & large data centers? • How is research disseminated? How does it effectively engage publics and inform policy-making? • How are ethics imbricated in research and how can researchers conduct work with integrity? • What are benefits and challenges of compliance (e.g., privacy, security, review boards)? • How can research address global challenges (e.g., health, inequality, poverty, climate change)? • How is research used to drive solutions-based approaches and what are the challenges involved? • How does research in academia differ from research in industry and/or community? • What are the obstacles involved in translating findings into action? • What issues are involved in targeted, universal, and targeted universal approaches to research? • What are criteria and implications of various forms of research funding? • How are meta-analyses and systematic reviews engaging human-machine collaboration? • How can research education be integrated into teaching and learning? How are next generations of researchers being trained? • CALL FOR PROPOSALS • Send 150-200 word abstracts for papers / panels / art / experiences by NOVEMBER 11, 2025 to: Janet Wasko • jwasko(a)uoregon.edu

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Call for Proposals: What is Research? (2026)
by Janet Wasko 11 Sep '25

11 Sep '25

Please see attached Call for Proposals for What is Research?, rescheduled for April 23-25, 2026, at the University of Oregon Portland. Apologies for cross-listing.

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UK DARIAH Day: 7 Nov 2025
by Jessica Witte 11 Sep '25

11 Sep '25

Dear colleagues, The 2025 UK DARIAH Day will be held at the University of Edinburgh on Friday 7 November. All researchers, practitioners, and infrastructure providers in Digital Humanities in the UK are welcome. We also invite contributions to the Lunchtime Showcase – please indicate interest when registering. The programme will include keynotes, panels, a lunchtime project showcase, and a hands-on futures workshop led by Jen Ross and Melissa Terras. The full programme and registration form can be found here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dariah-day-2025-tickets-1537559875979. Attendance is free, but registration is essential. The event is organised by the UK cooperating partners of the DARIAH European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC): the Universities of Brighton, Edinburgh, Exeter and Leeds; Kings College London; and the School of Advanced Study, University of London. DARIAH ERIC enhances and supports digitally enabled research and teaching across the arts and humanities. Kind regards, Jessica Witte The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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Internet Society Amicus Brief in Cox v. Sony – US Supreme Court – September 2025
by Joly MacFie 11 Sep '25

11 Sep '25

<http://isoc.live/>*FILING <https://www.internetsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/ISOC-Amicus-Brie…> *(ISOC) | *SUMMARY + RESOURCES <https://www.patreon.com/posts/internet-society-138649068?utm_medium=clipboa…>* (Patreon) *ARCHIVE <https://archive.org/details/isoc-amicus-cox-v-sony> *| *PERMALINK <https://isoc.live/19674>* In the case of Cox v. Sony, in 2019, a Virginia jury awarded roughly $1 billion in statutory damages to a group of record labels, led by Sony, ruling that Cox had ‘secondary liability’ for copyright infringement by its users. In 2024, the Fourth Circuit validated that decision, but vacated the award and ordered a new damages trial. Cox successfully petitioned the Supreme Court to review the decision, asking whether an Internet service provider can be held secondarily liable for subscribers’ alleged copyright infringement—based largely on infringement notices and “repeat infringer” accusations—simply for continuing to provide access, and what legal standard should govern that liability. In September 2025 the Internet Society (ISOC) filed an Amicus Brief in the case, urging the Supreme Court to reverse the Fourth Circuit’s secondary-liability rule, arguing it would force ISPs to police users and terminate whole accounts on mere allegations of copyright infringement. The brief warns this would disconnect innocent people from essential connectivity, undermine the Internet’s layered, multi-intermediary architecture, and incentivize privacy-eroding surveillance, while rights holders can instead sue account owners directly. -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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MPhil Scholarship - Generative AI and Academic Writing & Publishing (QUT, Australia)
by kevin.witzenberger＠posteo.de 11 Sep '25

11 Sep '25

Dear colleagues, This might be of interest to some of your students in search of a funded MPhil position. Fully funded MPhil Scholarship - Generative AI and Academic Writing & Publishing - Queensland University of Technology, Australia Queensland University of Technology (Australia) is offering a fully funded MPhil scholarship to investigate generative AI platforms and their impact on academic writing and publishing. This research-oriented project will critically examine how AI tools are transforming academic work practices. Scholarship: * Full tuition coverage plus $37,010 AUD annual stipend for 1.75 years * Start date: February 2026 * Application deadline: 28 September 2025 * Based at QUT's Digital Media Research Centre, Brisbane * Supervised by Dr. Kevin Witzenberger, Prof. Jean Burgess & Dr. Aaron Snoswell Research Focus: The project will use adapted walkthrough methods to examine research-oriented AI platforms (such as ChatGPT's deep research function, Consensus, Research Rabbit) and assess alignment between platform marketing, actual affordances, and institutional policies governing their use in academic contexts. Ideal Candidate: * Bachelor's degree with strong GPA in relevant discipline * Interest in digital communication/media research * Experience with critical or qualitative digital research methods preferred * Strong research potential and writing skills Application Process: Interested candidates should first email Dr. Kevin Witzenberger with cover letter, CV, transcripts, research proposal, and writing sample. Shortlisted applicants will be invited to online interviews. This ARC-funded project offers an excellent opportunity to contribute to understanding AI's impact on knowledge systems and academic practices. For full details and application requirements, visit: https://research.qut.edu.au/researchgenai/mphil-scholarship/ Please share with potentially interested students and colleagues. Best, Kevin -- Dr Kevin Witzenberger Research Fellow, Generative AI Lab Digital Media Research Centre and School of Communication Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice Queensland University of Technology I acknowledge the Turrbal and Yugara, as the First Nations owners of the lands where QUT stands. I pay respect to their Elders, past and present. Turrbal and Yugara lands have always been places of learning, research and teaching.

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Research Participation Request - Generative AI Impact on Scholarly Research & Publishing
by kevin.witzenberger＠posteo.de 11 Sep '25

11 Sep '25

Dear colleagues, We need your help with an important research project! Our team at Queensland University of Technology and University of Melbourne is undertaking research funded through an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project (DP250100074). We are seeking to understand the impact of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies on scholarly research and publishing. Our project focuses on Research GenAI (RGAI) tools. RGAI tools are being marketed by both AI companies and academic publishers to a cross-disciplinary academic audience, promising to automate research discovery and writing tasks, such as identifying and/or summarising published research, writing literature reviews, conducting data analysis, and synthesising findings. Such tools and platforms include Consensus, Elicit, Research Rabbit, Scholarcy, Scite, SciSpace, ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot, with more being released every day. They are being promoted and adopted in a context of experimentation, uncertainty, and controversy. If you are an academic at any career level and in any field who has used RGAI tools in your work, we would love to speak with you regarding your experiences. To begin, we invite you to complete a very short initial survey (1 minute): https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=o1IL3MVo90SIHZOD2IULlmQ… For more information about our project, visit: https://research.qut.edu.au/researchgenai/ Please feel free to share with your colleagues and networks! Best, Kevin -- Dr Kevin Witzenberger Research Fellow, Generative AI Lab Digital Media Research Centre and School of Communication Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice Queensland University of Technology I acknowledge the Turrbal and Yugara, as the First Nations owners of the lands where QUT stands. I pay respect to their Elders, past and present. Turrbal and Yugara lands have always been places of learning, research and teaching.

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PhD scholarship on Child Tracking Apps in Melbourne
by Bjorn Nansen 11 Sep '25

11 Sep '25

We are seeking a PhD student to join an interdisciplinary project on Enhancing Ethical Design and Use of Data in Child Tracking Apps, funded by the Australian Research Council (FT250100270). The successful applicant will commence in early – mid 2026, and work closely with the lead investigator Associate Professor Bjørn Nansen located in the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) group in the School of Computing and Information Systems, at the University of Melbourne. The student will receive a full-time scholarship of $39,500 AUD per annum for 3 years. Please email expressions of interest to Assoc. Professor Bjørn Nansen (nansen(a)unimelb.edu.au<mailto:nansen@unimelb.edu.au>) by November 30th, 2025. Applicant The PhD research project will focus on the design, use or social impacts of emerging digital child tracking technologies and applications. Applicants from both applied and theoretical domains of technology use or design, and with interdisciplinary approaches or methods are welcome. Projects may explore: the social contexts in which children, young people, and families engage with technology; critically assess existing tools or propose (re)designs and new technologies; and/or conduct user-experience and co-design research. Applicants from a wide range of relevant disciplines are welcome to apply, including Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); User Experience (UX) design, Digital Media and Communication Studies, Science and Technology Studies (STS), Design Anthropology or related areas. The range of technologies that may be studied include (but are not limited to): mobile applications, wearable technologies, sensor devices, digital platforms, datafication, dashboard interfaces. Possible topic areas may include (but are not limited to): data tracking in childhood, youth, friendships or family contexts; mobile app tracking platforms, interfaces, dashboards or ecosystems; data tracking industries, developer perspectives, data markets, and regulation; or the ethical design and child co-design of child tracking apps. Eligibility To be eligible for this scholarship, the applicant must: * Meet the University’s entry requirements for Higher Degree by Research program, * Have strong qualitative social research and/or interaction design research skills, * Provide evidence of strong oral and written communication skills, * The scholarship is open to both domestic and international applicants who meet the residency requirements. How to apply Please include the following information with your EOI: 1. A Research Proposal outlining the topic you wish to research for the PhD (<1 page) 2. A brief CV that includes contact details for 2 referees (<2 pages) Further information The Ethical Design and Use of Data in Child Tracking Apps (FT250100270) project focuses on how tracking apps are designed to measure and manage children’s physiological, behavioural, and socio-economic activity across categories including health (e.g. physical activity, sleep, diet), lifestyle (e.g. location, mobility, chores, spending) and productivity (e.g. finances, alertness, screen-time). In doing so, they generate valuable data about the lives of children. Yet the types of child data being collected through mobile tracking apps (e.g. physiological, behavioural, personal, real-time, aggregated), and how this data is processed and used – within families or commercial data economies – remain largely opaque and unknown. Thus, there is a need for research to understand the breadth, uses and impacts of children’s tracking apps to enhance their ethical design and use of personal data, which this fellowship aims to achieve. It will employ innovative co-design research with children, and analyse family practices, mobile platforms, developer perspectives, and the regulatory environment of children’s mobile tracking app technologies and services.

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WEBCAST SEP 16-18 - Indigenous Connectivity Summit 2025
by Joly MacFie 10 Sep '25

10 Sep '25

[image: ISOC LIVE] <http://isoc.live/> *YOUTUBE PLAYLIST <https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlg8We3ePxcO6o7wwKyH1ajH2T-i0VxoY>* | *ADD TO CALENDAR <https://addcal.io/e/9jmaqiubb4h8>* | *PERMALINK <https://isoc.live/19667/>* On *Tuesday – Thursday September 16-18, 2025*, the *Indigenous Connectivity Institute <https://indigenousconnectivity.org/>* (ICI) will host the *9th Indigenous Connectivity Summit <https://indigenousconnectivity.org/summits/2025-indigenous-connectivity-sum…>* (ICS 2025) in Algonquin territory in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada This community-led forum is a focal point for Indigenous leadership and their partners to gather and collaborate on building a digital future on their terms. *AGENDA https://indigenousconnectivity.org/summits/2025-indigenous-connectivity-sum… <https://indigenousconnectivity.org/summits/2025-indigenous-connectivity-sum…>* (All times EDT = UTC-4) Day 1 – September 16, 2025 – YOUTUBE <https://youtu.be/rTYjm7udmPw> *10:00 Plenary – Welcome and Opening Ceremony* *Elder Karen MacInnis* *Fred McGregor* – Emcee *10:30 Lightning Talk – Introducing the ICS Calls to Action* *Natalie Campbell* – Internet Society, ICI *10:45 Case Study – Rapid Lynx Telecommunications* *Sherry McCuller* – Rapid Lynx Telecommunications *11:00 Panel – What Role Can AI Play in Digital Equity?* *Norman Valdez* – CERIC, BrainTrainr *Jeff Doctor* – Animikii *Olivia Cragg* – FNIGC *Dan Clouston* – FNTC Moderator: *Katlia Lafferty* *12:00 LUNCH* *13:00 Panel – LEOS: the good, the bad, and the ugly* *Brenda Norris* – First Mile *Lyle Fabian* – Katlotech Communications *Madeleine Redfern* – CanArctic Inuit Networks Moderator: *Gordon Gow* – University of Alberta *14:00 Panel – Data Center Opportunities for Indigenous Communities* *Sharayah Lane* – Internet Society (virtual) *Michael McCormick and Marcia Trudeau-Bomberry* – Wiikwenkoong Unceded Territory *Skylee-Storm Hogan Stacey* – FNIGC Moderator: *Asennaienton Frank Horn* *15:00 BREAK* *15:15 Information Session – KatloTech Communications* *Lyle Fabian* – CEO, KatloTech Communications *15:30 Information Session – Sustainability and Efficiency in Networks* *Joaquin Wray* – Equitable Origin *16:00 Plenary Discussion – Thoughts on Day 1, looking ahead to Day 2* Moderator: *Fred McGregor* Day 2 – September 17, 2025 – YOUTUBE <https://youtu.be/VFAx0dI0qVQ> *10:45 Plenary Check-in* *Fred McGregor* *11:00 Panel – Engaging in Youth Policy Advocacy* *ILPA Alumini* – Youth Scholarship Recipients Moderator: *Majedah Hawk* *13:00 Panel – Changing Political Landscapes in Canada and the US: What Does It Means for Digital Equity?* *John Perrino* – Internet Society *Danae Wilson* – Nez Perce *Davida Delmar* – Navajo Nation, NDIA *14:00 Panel – Spectrum Advocacy: Are We Headed in the Right Direction?* *Lope Trjillo-Perdomo* – Not2Far, IEEE *Jonathan Fleury* – Norway House *Red Spectrum* – Coeur D’Alene Tribe *15:00 BREAK* *15:15 Workshop Breakouts* (may not be streamed) *16:15 Plenary – Thoughts on Day 2, looking ahead to Day 3* Moderator: *Fred McGregor* Day 3 – September 18, 2025 – YOUTUBE <https://youtu.be/Qkdmau_ehCk> *10:00 Plenary Check-in* *Fred McGregor* *10:15 Panel – Have we made progress in building an Indigneous workforce in networking?* *Peter Leaton* – Sichuun *Nikki Muswaggon* – Manitoba SchoolNet Moderator: *Frank Horn* – ICI *11:45 Lightning Talk – First Mile Connectivity Consortium Update* *Tim Whiteduck* – FMCC *12:00 LUNCH* *13:00 Plenary – Info Session: Mentoring* *13:30 Plenary Discussion – Indigenous Connectivity Institute Town Hall* *14:15 Plenary Discussion – Calls to Action* Moderator: *Natalie Campbell* – Internet Society ICI *14:45 Wrap up* *Fred McGregor* #IndigiConnects #indigenous @IndigiConnects @internetsociety @ICANN -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -

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Job: Assistant Professor in Media Studies
by Tilton, Lauren 10 Sep '25

10 Sep '25

Please help spread the word! Happy to answer any questions! - Best, Lauren We are hiring an Assistant Professor who specializes in emerging technologies! Areas of focus might include, but are not limited to, algorithms, AI, infrastructure, extended reality, information science, platform studies, and game studies. It is an exciting moment at UR! We are expanding our offering in media studies to support the interests of our excellent students, who we learn with in a small liberal arts college setting. Transdisciplinary approaches to research and teaching are highly valued. UR centers a teacher-scholar model that emphasizes academic excellence, belonging and community, access and affordability, well-being, and experiential learning and community engagement. For more information, visit https://richmond.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff_faculty/job/UR-Main-Camp… Please help spread the word! I am happy to answer any questions! Best, Lauren Tilton Search Chair and E. Claiborne Robins Professor of Digital Humanities

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