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3-Week Extension | Re: Call on Department of Interior's Proposed Destruction of Records - Mon October 22, 2018 @ 2 PM EDT
by Yosem Companys 24 Oct '18

24 Oct '18

From: Patrice McDermott <pmcdermott(a)govinfowatch.net> Thanks, James. NARA has confirmed a 3-week extension (until 23 Nov) on comments (just late yesterday). So, Emily Manna/Samantha Feinstein will be pulling something together for the openness and transparency folks. I encourage the CSS folks, and Fed Data folks, and envir’l folks – and FOIA folks! – to start working on drafting your comments – and, of course, to circulate them to your communities for sign-on. Russ Kick has been doing a deep dive and will be sending something around soon. I will recirculate to the listservs here (as he is not on most of them). Thanks, again, James! The current relevant docs are here https://altgov2.org/doi-records-destruction/ Patrice Government Information Watch <https://govinfowatch.net/> pmcdermott(a)govinfowatch.net @GovInfoWatch *From:* Mr. James R. (Librarian) Jacobs [mailto:jrjacobs@stanford.edu] Hi Patrice. I’m getting the word out to library- and transparency groups. Is there an open public letter onto which people could sign? Best James Jacobs ... . -. - ..-. .-. --- -- -- -.-- - . .-.. . --. .-. .- .--. .... On Oct 22, 2018, at 11:43 AM, Patrice McDermott <pmcdermott(a)govinfowatch.net> wrote: Before the call, be sure to read NARA’s appraisal memo https://altgov2.org/wp-content/uploads/DAA-0048-2015-0003_Appraisal_Memo.pdf It is NOT the final word, but it may help inform the discussion – and comments. Patrice Government Information Watch <https://govinfowatch.net/> pmcdermott(a)govinfowatch.net @GovInfoWatch *From:* Patrice McDermott Yes, that is Russ Kick’s site & is definitely credible, etc. Russ has made it easier for folks to find these requests to NARA from agencies. NARA is working on a way to do that but is not there yet. The closed cases site is not it, of course, as it only shows the ones on which final decisions have been made. One can also just set up an alert from the Fed Reg, but Russ’s site is centralized. I urge folks to look at Russ’s site. The request is very extensive. Patrice Government Information Watch <https://govinfowatch.net/> pmcdermott(a)govinfowatch.net @GovInfoWatch *From:* Anne Polansky <AnneP(a)whistleblower.org> Hello all, looking forward to our call this afternoon! Don't know if you all have seen this -- I found an "alt" site - looks to be credible and legit - detailed and informative. https://altgov2.org/doi-records-destruction/ And, this web page from the National Archives is a useful reference as well - perhaps the archivist-types in this group are familiar but this is a new info source to me. https://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/resources/unauthorizeddispositionclos… Unauthorized Dispositions Closed Cases | National Archives <https://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/resources/unauthorizeddispositionclos…> www.archives.gov Under 44 USC 3106 and 36 CFR Part 1230, "Unlawful or Accidental Removal, Defacing, Alteration, or Destruction of Records," Federal agencies are required to "notify the Archivist of any actual, impending, or threatened unlawful removal, defacing, alteration, corruption, deletion, erasure, or other destruction of records in the custody of the agency." NARA also receives ------------------------------ *From:* Patrice McDermott <pmcdermott(a)govinfowatch.net> Reminder of call today (and first notification for FOI list folks – sorry). Patrice Government Information Watch <https://govinfowatch.net/> pmcdermott(a)govinfowatch.net @GovInfoWatch October 22, 2018 @ 2 PM EDT Call on Department of Interior's Proposed Destruction of Records The DOI is asking for permission to destroy records about oil and gas leases, mining, dams, wells, timber sales, marine conservation, fishing, endangered species, non-endangered species, critical habitats, land acquisition, and lots more. See further highlighted info in the note from Russ Kick below. October 29 is the deadline to comment. During this call organizations can share their proposed action plan and ideas for collaborative action. Call-in details included: https://goo.gl/forms/lvJAAhOcZFsmU5zg2 Please RSVP <https://goo.gl/forms/lvJAAhOcZFsmU5zg2> and share with other orgs/groups that might be interested. *From:* Samantha Feinstein Good Morning, This is a friendly reminder about today’s call at 2:00 for those of you who interested in discussing the Department of Interior's proposed destruction of records. Please RSVP here if you plan to participate: https://goo.gl/forms/LDQdJV85Lt9ZU0Nh2 Many thanks, Samantha *Samantha Feinstein * *Senior Legal and International Analyst *Government Accountability Project 1612 K St., NW, Suite 1100 Washington, DC 20006 Phone: 202-457-0034 x 162 E-mail: SamanthaF(a)whistleblower.org Website: http://www.whistleblower.org Skype: SamanthaF(a)whistleblower.org *Government Accountability Project is the nation’s leading whistleblower protection organization. Through litigating whistleblower cases, publicizing concerns and developing legal reforms, Government Accountability Project’s mission is to protect the public interest by promoting government and corporate accountability. Founded in 1977, Government Accountability Project is a non-profit, non-partisan advocacy organization located in Washington, D.C.* *NOTICE:* *This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the National Security Agency (NSA) in secret. The parties to this email do not consent to the retrieving or storing of this communication and any related metadata, as well as printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, or otherwise using it. This communication may contain privileged or other confidential information. If you believe you have received this communication in error, please delete it immediately and do not print, copy, retransmit, disseminate, or otherwise use this information. Also, please indicate to the sender that you have received this communication in error.* *From:* Samantha Feinstein October 22, 2018 @ 2 PM EDT Call on Department of Interior's Proposed Destruction of Records The DOI is asking for permission to destroy records about oil and gas leases, mining, dams, wells, timber sales, marine conservation, fishing, endangered species, non-endangered species, critical habitats, land acquisition, and lots more. See further highlighted info in the note from Russ Kick below. October 29 is the deadline to comment. During this call organizations can share their proposed action plan and ideas for collaborative action. Call-in details included: https://goo.gl/forms/lvJAAhOcZFsmU5zg2 Please RSVP <https://goo.gl/forms/lvJAAhOcZFsmU5zg2> and share with other orgs/groups that might be interested. *Samantha Feinstein * *Senior Legal and International Analyst *Government Accountability Project 1612 K St., NW, Suite 1100 Washington, DC 20006 Phone: 202-457-0034 x 162 E-mail: SamanthaF(a)whistleblower.org Website: http://www.whistleblower.org Skype: SamanthaF(a)whistleblower.org *Government Accountability Project is the nation’s leading whistleblower protection organization. Through litigating whistleblower cases, publicizing concerns and developing legal reforms, Government Accountability Project’s mission is to protect the public interest by promoting government and corporate accountability. Founded in 1977, Government Accountability Project is a non-profit, non-partisan advocacy organization located in Washington, D.C.* *NOTICE:* *This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the National Security Agency (NSA) in secret. The parties to this email do not consent to the retrieving or storing of this communication and any related metadata, as well as printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, or otherwise using it. This communication may contain privileged or other confidential information. If you believe you have received this communication in error, please delete it immediately and do not print, copy, retransmit, disseminate, or otherwise use this information. Also, please indicate to the sender that you have received this communication in error.* ------------------------------ *From:* Russ Kick As I mentioned a while back, I've started a new project to bring much-needed transparency to the process whereby agencies get permission to destroy their records at fixed intervals (chosen by the agencies and okayed by the National Archives). I'm obtaining and posting every such request, which have never appeared online before. This project is here: https://altgov2.org/records-destruction-requests/ Today I want to specifically highlight a massive request from the Department of the Interior to schedule records destruction across *all *of its agencies. It's asking for permission to destroy records about oil and gas leases, mining, dams, wells, timber sales, marine conservation, fishing, endangered species, non-endangered species, critical habitats, land acquisition, and lots more. It's also wanting to permanently retain a smaller subset of documents in each category, which will be transferred to the National Archives, where they will become harder to access via FOIA. This is crucial stuff. In the months, years, and decades ahead, if you get "records destroyed" responses, or a vague "no records" response, from NPS, BLM, FWS, BIA, etc., this could be the root cause. But there's time to comment. *October 29 *is the deadline I was given. Here's all the info, including a streamlined, easy-to-read HTML version of Interior's extensive request: https://altgov2.org/doi-records-destruction/ --Russ -- *Please support my fight against secrecy: altgov2.org/donate <http://www.altgov2.org/donate>* Russ Kick http://www.russkick.com/ http://www.altgov2.org/ http://www.thememoryhole2.org/ --

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WEBCAST TODAY: COPPA at 20: Protecting Children’s Privacy in the New Digital Era @GtownTechLaw
by Joly MacFie 24 Oct '18

24 Oct '18

Protecting children on the Internet is growing concern globally, and has been the subject of panels at many recent National & Regional IGS, including Barbados <https://livestream.com/accounts/686369/events/8320984/videos/178722214> and Mauritius <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/mauritiusigf>. Today's event looks at how the USA is doing. <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/DigitalCooperation> [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/coppaat20> Today, *Wednesday October 24 2018* at *12:15pm EDT*(16:15 UTC) the *Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law & Policy <https://www.georgetowntech.org/>* will co-host a half-day conference *COPPA at 20: Protecting Children’s Privacy in the New Digital Era <https://www.georgetowntech.org/coppa>* on the 20-year legacy of the *Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Protection_Act> *and how to protect children’s privacy in the new digital era. Two decades of digital advances have dramatically changed the ways in which children interact with the internet, and the way big data is collected. How well are COPPA and regulators keeping up with challenges to children’s privacy and wellbeing? What are key questions that remain around the interpretation of the law? And what lessons can COPPA provide around novel approaches to self-regulation, the enforcement landscape and the future of broader privacy regulations? Speakers include FTC Commissioner *Rebecca Slaughter* and Senator *Ed Markey*. The event will be simulcast on the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <http://livestream.com/internetsociety>*. *View on Livestream: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/coppaat20 <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/coppaat20>* *View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/X0mq4ZR0k9g <https://youtu.be/X0mq4ZR0k9g>* *Agenda: https://www.georgetowntech.org/coppa <https://www.georgetowntech.org/coppa>* *Twitter: #coppaat20 http://bit.ly/coppaat20 <http://bit.ly/coppaat20>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/10641/ <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/%E2%80%8Bhttps://isoc.live/10641/%E2%80%8B> -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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Re: [Air-L] Fwd: [liberationtech] URGENT: U.S. Dept of the Interior: Records Destruction Request. Public Comment Period.
by Natalie Rock 24 Oct '18

24 Oct '18

I do not know if this is useful for jurisdictional reasons, but the British Library currently has a call open for grants to protect endangered archives. Do you know of any collections that are currently at risk and need preserving? The Endangered Archives Programme is now accepting preliminary applications for the next annual funding round – the deadline for submission of preliminary applications is 12 noon 19 November 2018 and full details of the application procedures and documentation <https://eap.bl.uk/Preliminary-Application-Documention> are available on the EAP website. https://blogs.bl.uk/endangeredarchives/2018/09/call-for-applications-now-op… On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 8:05 AM lindsay blackwell <lblackw(a)umich.edu> wrote: > looping in brandon locke at MSU (who spearheads endangered data week > <https://endangereddataweek.org/about/>) for insight into protecting this > data. > > Lindsay Blackwell <http://www.lindsayblackwell.net> [she/her] > PhD Candidate, School of Information > University of Michigan > > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 3:54 AM Irani, Lilly <lirani(a)ucsd.edu> wrote: > > > In addition to formal commentary and reaching out to congress, are there > > other measures that would be possible such as requesting the archives and > > creating copies? Michelle Murphy and Patrick Keilty at University of > > Toronto in partnership with librarians at universities organized an > > archiving hackathon to download EPA data in anticipation of attempts to > > destroy the records. > > > > This is not an area of expertise for me but of course this is urgent. > > ________________________________ > > From: Air-L <air-l-bounces(a)listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Charles M. > Ess > > <c.m.ess(a)media.uio.no> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 10:54:38 PM > > To: air-l > > Subject: [Air-L] Fwd: [liberationtech] URGENT: U.S. Dept of the Interior: > > Records Destruction Request. Public Comment Period. > > > > Dear AoIRists, > > I'm not sure this intersects much with internet research - though > > someone might want to document the effort, if nothing else, under the > > internet and social activism. > > AoIRists who are U.S. citizens - is this as Orwellian and disturbing as > > it looks? > > If so, please act and forward as appropriate. > > glumly, > > - charles ess > > > > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > > Subject: [liberationtech] URGENT: U.S. Dept of the Interior: > > Records > > Destruction Request. Public Comment Period. > > Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 16:35:57 -0700 > > From: Yosem Companys <ycompanys(a)gmail.com> > > Reply-To: liberationtech <liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu> > > To: Liberation Technologies <liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu> > > CC: Mr. James R. Jacobs <jrjacobs(a)stanford.edu> > > > > > > > > From: Mr. James R. Jacobs <jrjacobs(a)stanford.edu > > <mailto:jrjacobs@stanford.edu>> > > > > I wanted to alert you to a very disturbing thing happening in the > > National Archives world that may severely impact research, especially > > historical and scientific research. The Dept of interior is asking for > > permission to destroy records about oil and gas leases, mining, dams, > > wells, timber sales, marine conservation, fishing, endangered species, > > non-endangered species, critical habitats, land acquisition, and lots > > more. Basically records from every agency within the Interior > > Department, including the Bureau of Land Management, National Park > > Service, US Fish & Wildlife Service, US Geological Survey, Bureau of > > Safety and Environmental Enforcement, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and > > others. This is all content that would normally go to NARA for > > collection and preservation. This is disturbing because previous > > administrations would obfuscate records by classifying/reclassifying > > records. This admin is basically just destroying records so they’ll > > never be accessible. > > > > There’s an October 29 deadline for comment to NARA: > > request.schedule(a)nara.gov <mailto:request.schedule@nara.gov> /// fax: > > 301-837-3698 /// NARA (ACRA), 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park MD > > 20740-6001. (Be sure to say that you’re referring to > > DAA-0048-2015-0003.) Please forward to your networks and researchers who > > may be effected. > > > > More information: https://altgov2.org/doi-records-destruction/ > > > > NARA’s appraisal memo > > > > > https://altgov2.org/wp-content/uploads/DAA-0048-2015-0003_Appraisal_Memo.pdf > > > > > > this is tragic and terrible. > > > > james > > > > > > > > -- > > James R. Jacobs > > US Government Information Librarian > > 123D Green Library > > Stanford University > > P: 650.862.9871 > > E: jrjacobs(a)stanford.edu <mailto:jrjacobs@stanford.edu> > > Gchat: freegovinfo > > T: @freegovinfo > > W: freegovinfo.info <http://freegovinfo.info> > > lockss-usdocs.stanford.edu <http://lockss-usdocs.stanford.edu> > > library.stanford.edu/people/jrjacobs > > <http://library.stanford.edu/people/jrjacobs> > > freegovinfo.info/about/jrjacobs <http://freegovinfo.info/about/jrjacobs> > > > > "The art of research is the ability to look at the details, and > > see the passion." > > -- Daryl Zero, "The Zero Effect" (1998) > > ---------------------------------- > > This message has been intercepted and read by U.S. government > > agencies including the FBI, CIA, and NSA without notice, warrant or > > knowledge of sender or recipient and without regard for the US > > Constitution. > > > > (\ > > {|||8- > > (/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > > http://www.aoir.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ > The Air-L(a)listserv.aoir.org mailing list > is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org > Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: > http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org > > Join the Association of Internet Researchers: > http://www.aoir.org/ > "Before acting on this email or opening any attachments you should read > the Manchester Metropolitan University email disclaimer available on its > website http://www.mmu.ac.uk/emaildisclaimer " >

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[#WebSci19] CfP Web Science Conference, June 30 - July 3, 2019, Boston, MA, USA
by Peters Isabella 24 Oct '18

24 Oct '18

***please excuse multiple postings*** Synergies for the Good: The web and society 11th International ACM Web Science Conference 2019 June 30 - July 3, 2019 at Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA CALL FOR PAPERS: https://websci19.webscience.org/callforpapers.html CALL FOR POSTERS: https://websci19.webscience.org/callforposters.html ABSTRACT (PAPERS) DUE FEBRUARY 4, 2019, Midnight AoE (https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe) PAPERS/POSTERS DUE FEBRUARY 11, 2019, Midnight AoE Synergies for the Good: The web and society (#WebSci19) The 11th International ACM Conference on Web Science in 2019 (WebSci’19) is a unique conference where a multitude of disciplines converge in a creative and critical dialogue with the aim of understanding the web and its impacts. WebSci’19 welcomes participation from diverse fields including (but not limited to) art, anthropology, computer and information sciences, communication, economics, humanities, informatics, law, linguistics, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology. CALL FOR PAPERS Following the tradition of earlier conferences, contributions to WebSci’19 aim to cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. The community engages with novel and thought-provoking ideas and discusses original research, work in progress, analysis, and practice in the field of Web Science, its current theoretical, methodological, and epistemological challenges as well as Web practices of individuals, collectives, institutions, and platforms. In particular, we welcome contributions that · have a broader perspective on the web and that combine analyses of web data and other types of data (e.g., from surveys or interviews) to better understand user behaviour (i.e., online and offline), · carried out longitudinal studies, · present successful cases of inter-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary web research, · use mixed-method approaches or reflect on the methods used, · discuss responsible forms of Web Science (e.g. regarding standards, methods, generalizability of results), and/ or · reflect on the societal impact of web research, how the web is perceived in the media and in society and whether this clashes with the self-image of Web Science. Please refer to https://websci19.webscience.org/callforpapers.html to learn more about topics of interest, the types of papers and the submission process. CALL FOR POSTERS We invite submissions to the poster session of WebSci’19. The poster session is an opportunity for computer and information scientists to present shorter results, and for researchers from other disciplines to share both unpublished and previously published work with one another and with the Web Science community. Please refer to https://websci19.webscience.org/callforposters.html to learn more about topics of interest and the submission process. We hope to see you in Boston! Isabella Peters & Wagner Meira Jr. (Program Chairs) Momin Malik & Ingmar Weber (Poster Chairs) Paolo Boldi, Brooke Foucault Welles, Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda, Christo Wilson (General Chairs) *** Prof. Dr. Isabella Peters Professor of Web Science Kiel University (CAU Kiel) Institute for Computer Science Department Web Science (R. 506) Hermann-Rodewald-Str. 3 D-24118 Kiel T: +49 431 880-7286 E: ipe(a)informatik.uni-kiel.de<mailto:ipe@informatik.uni-kiel.de> Web: http://www.ws.informatik.uni-kiel.de/en/research ZBW Leibniz Information Center for Economics Düsternbrooker Weg 120 D-24105 Kiel T: +49-431-8814-623 E: i.peters(a)zbw.eu<mailto:i.peters@zbw.eu> Web: http://www.zbw.eu/en/research/web-science

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Fwd: [liberationtech] URGENT: U.S. Dept of the Interior: Records Destruction Request. Public Comment Period.
by Charles M. Ess 24 Oct '18

24 Oct '18

Dear AoIRists, I'm not sure this intersects much with internet research - though someone might want to document the effort, if nothing else, under the internet and social activism. AoIRists who are U.S. citizens - is this as Orwellian and disturbing as it looks? If so, please act and forward as appropriate. glumly, - charles ess -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [liberationtech] URGENT: U.S. Dept of the Interior: Records Destruction Request. Public Comment Period. Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 16:35:57 -0700 From: Yosem Companys <ycompanys(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: liberationtech <liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu> To: Liberation Technologies <liberationtech(a)lists.stanford.edu> CC: Mr. James R. Jacobs <jrjacobs(a)stanford.edu> From: Mr. James R. Jacobs <jrjacobs(a)stanford.edu <mailto:jrjacobs@stanford.edu>> I wanted to alert you to a very disturbing thing happening in the National Archives world that may severely impact research, especially historical and scientific research. The Dept of interior is asking for permission to destroy records about oil and gas leases, mining, dams, wells, timber sales, marine conservation, fishing, endangered species, non-endangered species, critical habitats, land acquisition, and lots more. Basically records from every agency within the Interior Department, including the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, US Fish & Wildlife Service, US Geological Survey, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and others. This is all content that would normally go to NARA for collection and preservation. This is disturbing because previous administrations would obfuscate records by classifying/reclassifying records. This admin is basically just destroying records so they’ll never be accessible. There’s an October 29 deadline for comment to NARA: request.schedule(a)nara.gov <mailto:request.schedule@nara.gov> /// fax: 301-837-3698 /// NARA (ACRA), 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park MD 20740-6001. (Be sure to say that you’re referring to DAA-0048-2015-0003.) Please forward to your networks and researchers who may be effected. More information: https://altgov2.org/doi-records-destruction/ NARA’s appraisal memo https://altgov2.org/wp-content/uploads/DAA-0048-2015-0003_Appraisal_Memo.pdf this is tragic and terrible. james -- James R. Jacobs US Government Information Librarian 123D Green Library Stanford University P: 650.862.9871 E: jrjacobs(a)stanford.edu <mailto:jrjacobs@stanford.edu> Gchat: freegovinfo T: @freegovinfo W: freegovinfo.info <http://freegovinfo.info> lockss-usdocs.stanford.edu <http://lockss-usdocs.stanford.edu> library.stanford.edu/people/jrjacobs <http://library.stanford.edu/people/jrjacobs> freegovinfo.info/about/jrjacobs <http://freegovinfo.info/about/jrjacobs> "The art of research is the ability to look at the details, and see the passion." -- Daryl Zero, "The Zero Effect" (1998) ---------------------------------- This message has been intercepted and read by U.S. government agencies including the FBI, CIA, and NSA without notice, warrant or knowledge of sender or recipient and without regard for the US Constitution. (\ {|||8- (/

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DH Downunder 2018 - ONE WEEK LEFT FOR EARLY BIRD RATE
by Justine Humphry 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

DH Downunder 2018 – 3-7 December, University of Sydney, Australia Registrations open REMINDER - ONE WEEK LEFT FOR EARLY BIRD RATE Full week cost is $200 ($150 Early bird) Early bird registrations end on October 31 Digital Humanities Downunder is now accepting registrations for the 2018 summer institute for training in digital research methods and approaches. This low-cost event aimed at students, academics, professionals and early career researchers is co-organised by the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney in partnership with the Digital Humanities Research Group at Western Sydney University, with classes also offered by colleagues from the Australian National University, and the University of Victoria in Canada. The five day program includes classes on digital media methods, introduction to linked open data, projects and writing, introduction to databases, R for data wrangling and visualisation and distant reading. There will be public lectures and professional development activities and a Sydney Ideas seminar - Digital Publics: Hidden and Untraceable Data - leading into the event to publicly discuss current and emerging themes of digital media research, proudly hosted by the University of Sydney’s Department of Media and Communications. On the Friday the national HASS DEVL digital infrastructure project will be running a ‘DH Pathways’ event, aimed at increasing awareness of digital research and tools. To view the week’s program and register, visit DH Downunder 2018 at https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/dhrg/digital_humanities/dh_downunder_2018

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AI Now Is Hiring Postdoctoral Researchers; Apply By November 27
by Sarah Myers West 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

Dear all, AI Now is hiring two to three postdoctoral researchers whose work resonates with the Institute's mission - it's an awesome gig, and I'd love to see members of this community apply! We welcome applications across a range of interests and disciplines. This two-year position is an ideal opportunity for scholars engaging with the social implications of AI and related technologies, who want to be part of this growing research community. Want to learn more and apply? See our Postdoctoral Researcher job description <https://ainowinstitute.org/join-us.html#postdoctoral-researcher>. The deadline for applications is November 27, 2018. Know someone who might be perfect? Please feel free to share this email. Thank you for helping the AI Now Institute grow! Best, Sarah -- *Dr. Sarah Myers West* Postdoctoral Researcher AI Now Institute New York University sarah(a)ainowinstitute.org | @sarahbmyers ------------------------------ Postdoctoral Researcher AI Now is hiring two-to-three postdoctoral researchers whose work resonates with the Institute’s mission. We welcome applications across a range of interests and disciplines. This two-year position is an ideal opportunity for scholars engaging with the social implications of AI and related technologies, who want to be part of this growing research community. For the 2019 cohort, we are specifically looking to appoint one postdoctoral researcher whose work relates to issues of AI, Gender, and Race. If your work relates to this field, please indicate that in your application and research statement. As an interdisciplinary institute, AI Now will provide postdocs with the opportunity to develop their scholarship at a top academic institution with an remit to collaborate with researchers and practitioners across different fields, whether within NYU, at partner institutions, or working with relevant industry and civil society organizations. Postdocs will devote time to their own research and collaborative projects as well as contributing to AI Now programs and events related to their research portfolio. Teaching is not expected, but can be an option, depending on a candidate’s availability and interest. ABOUT THE AI NOW INSTITUTE AI Now is committed to mentorship and support and to accommodating and resourcing research agendas that fit within its core mission. Postdocs will become a core part of a vibrant research community that includes reading groups, expert workshops, international conferences, regular salons, and site-specific travel. Postdocs will also have the opportunity to help shape the annual AI Now Symposium. The AI Now Institute <https://ainowinstitute.org/> at New York University is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to examining the social implications of artificial intelligence. We focus on producing fundamental research and expanding the emerging field focused on these issues. Currently, our research focuses on four key domains: rights and liberties, labor and automation, bias and inclusion, and safety and critical infrastructure. Founded in 2017 by Kate Crawford and Meredith Whittaker, the AI Now Institute is housed at New York University, where it fosters vibrant interdisciplinary engagement across the University and beyond. Our work includes collaborations across an expansive, world-class network of scholars, policy-makers, activists and advocates, technologists and industry leaders, and many others. AI Now is affiliated across six different NYU faculties: the Tandon School of Engineering <https://ainowinstitute.org/>, the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development <http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/>, the Law School <http://www.law.nyu.edu/>, the Stern School of Business <http://www.stern.nyu.edu/>, the Center for Data Science <https://cds.nyu.edu/>. RESOURCES AND BENEFITS - Competitive salary and benefits - A generous research budget for conferences (including international), fieldwork, and research materials available as needed - Access to an exceptional network of mentors and established researchers spanning NYU and beyond, including civil society and industry practitioners - Relocation assistance available as needed QUALIFICATIONS Eligible candidates will have received their PhD in 2017-2019 (conferred by August 2019). Start date for this position will be in September 2019. Postdoc positions are two years in length and this position will conclude at the end of June 2021. Successful candidates will have extensive research experience and an established research track record, demonstrated by journal publications and/or conference papers, as well as other forms of academic participation, such as program committees and editorial boards. Candidates may be trained in any discipline, but should be interested in addressing the complex social implications of AI and related systems, and be committed to working in an interdisciplinary environment. Candidates from all disciplines, both technical and non-technical, are welcome to apply. Examples of relevant research areas include: issues of bias and fairness in algorithmic systems, gender representation and AI, the implications of algorithmic risk assessment and means testing in criminal justice and social welfare, the geopolitical implications of artificial intelligence, the role of industrial actors in the creation of modern AI systems, the ways in which AI and automation are shaping specific labor sectors and the nature of work, infrastructural analyses of AI, the history of AI, and the political implications of machine vision. We are also open to a range of topics and approaches that go beyond these domains. The ideal candidate will enjoy bold and creative research design, working on collaborative teams, mentoring junior researchers, exploring new methodologies, and engaging broad audiences with their research. The AI Now postdoctoral program is located at New York University and candidates will be expected to spend the majority of their time on-site, with the exception of travel for conferences, research, meetings, etc. New York University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. New York University is committed to a policy of equal treatment and opportunity in every aspect of its hiring and promotion process without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy or childbirth (or related medical condition), sexual orientation, partnership status, gender and/or gender identity or expression, marital, parental or familial status, caregiver status, national origin, ethnicity, alienage or citizenship status, veteran or military status, age, disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, domestic violence victim status, unemployment status, or any other legally protected basis. Women, racial and ethnic minorities, persons of minority sexual orientation or gender identity, individuals with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply for vacant positions at all levels. APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS The application deadline for the 2019-2021 class is Tuesday, November 27, 2018. To apply, please submit your information via our online form <https://airtable.com/shrrUgfcccZrBcZu5>, including attachments for the following materials: 1. A research statement, no longer than two pages, on your research agenda, methodologies, and how this work connects to the mission of AI Now. - If you are applying for the AI, Gender & Race position please include an additional short statement (no more than one page) briefly outlining any past, present, and/or envisioned future work that you see as particularly relevant to this research track. 2. An abstract and chapter outline of your dissertation. 3. Two writing samples in English, such as journal articles, book chapters, essays, or equivalent. 4. Your CV; please indicate when you received/will receive your PhD. Feel free to contact us should you have any questions about the position at apply(a)ainowinstitute.org. APPLY NOW <https://airtable.com/shrrUgfcccZrBcZu5> -- *Dr. Sarah Myers West* Postdoctoral Researcher AI Now Institute New York University sarah(a)ainowinstitute.org | @sarahbmyers

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Interest in Special Issue on Digital Resistance & Activism
by Mathias Klang 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

We are gauging interest in participation in a special thematic issue of Journal of Resistance Studies https://resistance-journal.org on Digital Resistance & Activism This special edition aims to understand the role of technology in enabling and subverting resistance. We seek studies on the use of technology in the acts of protesting official power, as well as the use of technology in contesting power structures inherent in the technology or the technological platforms. If you are interested in submitting work in this area please contact Dr Mathias Klang mklang(a)fordham.edu or Dr Nora Madison madisonn(a)chc.edu Full call for papers to follow. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mathias Klang Associate Professor & Associate Chair Communication and Media Studies, Fordham University Faculty Memorial Hall #438, Phone: 718-817-4870 http://klangable.com <http://klangable.com/> ~ @klangable ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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CFP: Infrastructural Politics
by Blake Hallinan 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

Call for Papers: Special Issue of *Cultural Studies* on Infrastructural Politics Greetings, all: We are pleased to announce a call for papers of a special issue of *Cultural Studies* on "Infrastructural Politics." The deadline for 500-word abstracts if November 15, 2018. The full call is pasted below or available here: https://jamesngilmore.com/2018/07/24/special-issue-on-infrastructural-polit… . Best, Blake Hallinan & James Gilmore ------ Call for Papers: Special Issue of *Cultural Studies *on Infrastructural Politics Issue Editors: Blake Hallinan Ph.D. Candidate Department of Communication University of Colorado Boulder James N. Gilmore Assistant Professor Department of Communication Clemson University John Durham Peters’ 2015 book *The Marvelous Clouds* develops the concept *infrastructuralism *to describe a fascination “for the basic, the boring, the mundane, and all the mischievous work done behind the scenes” that contributes to a sense of the unremarkable (p. 34). Classic studies explored electric power (Hughes, 1988) and transportation systems (Innis, 1950), while more recent academic work has explored the unremarkable systems that have been architected to help sustain and form information technologies, including Nicole Starosielski’s history of undersea cables (2015), Eden Medina’s history of cybernetic systems in Allende’s Chile (2011), and Benjamin Peters’ history of the Soviet Internet (2017). Relatedly, there have been a growing number of calls to recognize the centrality of data for forming subjectivities and organizing the world (Striphas, 2011; van Dijck, 2013; Andrejevic, Hearn and Kennedy, 2015; Pasquale, 2015; Beer, 2016; O’Neil, 2016; Cheney-Lippold, 2017; Tufekci, 2017; Vaidhyanathan, 2018; Bowker, 2018; Noble, 2018; Plantin *et al.*, 2018). These and other studies demonstrate that significant attention needs to be paid to the design and implementation of material and immaterial data infrastructures, infrastructures that help make possible the production, dissemination, and circulation of culture. Infrastructure is never simply a neutral conduit or platform; it always has a politics, shaping the arrangements of power and authority in human associations and the activities within those arrangements (Winner, 1986). Generally, the point of infrastructure is to be constructive and supportive, but what exactly is being constructed and supported is not always so readily apparent. As work on socio-technical systems has shown, understanding the significance of technology requires attention to the technology itself but also to the ways technology enrolls people, places, systems, and interests. This broader understanding of the politics of platforms has been adopted by academic researchers (Gillespie, 2010, 2017), while simultaneously animating the aspirations of many leading technology companies—consider Mark Zuckerberg’s vision of creating a global community atop the foundation of Facebook as a prominent example (Zuckerberg, 2017; Swisher, 2018). Understanding, for instance, the construction of social networking sites alongside communities connects arrangements of data to arrangements of power and draws attention to related issues of ownership, access, transparency, accountability, accuracy, justice, and control, and how these arrangements shift over time and across contexts (Bowker and Star, 1999; Couldry and van Dijck, 2015; Pasquale, 2015; Peters, 2015, p. 2; van Doorn, 2017). We seek contributions for a special issue of *Cultural Studies *exploring the relationships between data, infrastructure, and politics, and how those relationships affect the study of culture. Cultural Studies can significantly address and engage the growing challenges of such a “constructive politics of infrastructures.” Cultural Studies’ investment in the articulation of politics, culture, and “everything that is not culture” (Thompson, 1961) provides an important—and, to date, underutilized—framework for analyzing the degree to which data, technologies, and infrastructures are rearticulating configurations of power and affecting lived experience. Potential contributors to this volume should submit a 500-word abstract outlining their object(s) of study, their research approach, and how their potential article draws on and extends the traditions, approaches, and projects of Cultural Studies. When submitting a proposal, please include name, affiliation, and contact information in the document, and send submissions as a PDF to co-editors Blake Hallinan (blake.hallinan(a)colorado.edu) and James N. Gilmore ( jngilmo(a)clemson.edu) Submissions should be received by November 15, 2018 for review. Authors will be notified if proposals are accepted within a month of the deadline. If accepted, full articles will be provisionally due to the special issue editors by July 15, 2019. In order to be deemed publishable in the special issue, all articles will undergo both editorial and blind peer review. All articles must adhere to the *formatting requirements* <https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rcus20&page…> of *Cultural Studies *to avoid rejection. Please direct all queries or concerns ahead of submission to both special issue editors. Topics may include but are not limited to: · Infrastructuralism as a way of thinking, distinct from structuralism, post-structuralism, and other relevant intellectual movements · Infrastructure’s implications for state politics, elections, protest movements, and other modes of political activism · How marginalized groups utilize infrastructure to mobilize resistive politics . · How data-based digital technologies challenge the epistemology of media and cultural studies · The relationship between network infrastructures and colonization projects around the globe · Media ecological studies that position cultural politics alongside environmental issues · The infrastructures of emergent surveillance systems, such as Amazon’s facial recognition program · How the mundanity of infrastructure relates to larger operations of power and authority

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Who is following Nigerian-Twitter reactions to their current minister of information and culture?
by deborah dike 23 Oct '18

23 Oct '18

Very recently, an alleged fake news was propagated against Lai Mohammed, Nigeria's current minister of information and culture: it is all over Nigerian Internet spaces that Lai Mohammed has threatened an attack against Israel (on behalf of Nigeria) for holding a notorious Nigerian, Nnamdi Kanu. The following responses to this on Twitter has been in the form of hilarious memes and commentary, a very typical way through which Nigerians respond to social issues on the Internet. https://twitter.com/search?q=Lai%20Mohammed%20israel&src=tyah Who is interested in this information?Who will like to (re)produce anything out of this? Deborah Dike,Lagos, Nigeria.

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