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Call for Demo Proposals: VR/AR for Learning Showcase at IEEE TALE 2018 (Australia, 4-7 December)
by Lee, Mark 08 Oct '18

08 Oct '18

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Call for Demo Proposals VR/AR FOR LEARNING SHOWCASE Special Track on XR & Immersive Environments @ IEEE TALE 2018 Wollongong, NSW, Australia (close to Sydney) 4–7 December 2018 Proposal submission Form: https://goo.gl/forms/UPoS5DMPlSgTciZU2 Proposal submission Deadline: 22 October 2018 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Proposals are being solicited for project demos to be presented as part of a VR/AR for Learning Showcase that will take place at IEEE TALE 2018 in Wollongong, Australia, in conjunction with the Special Track on XR and Immersive Learning Environments (http://tale2018.org/xr) TALE is the IEEE Education Society's flagship Asia-Pacific conference, catering to researchers and practitioners with an interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education as well as those interested in the innovative use of digital technologies for learning, teaching and assessment in any discipline. The target audience of the conference is diverse and includes those working in the higher education, vocational education and training (VET), K-12, corporate, government, and healthcare sectors. The XR and Immersive Learning Environments Special Track at TALE 2018 is being organised in cooperation with the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN at http://immersivelrn.org) The VR/AR for Learning Showcase will take place on either 5 or 6 December 2018. A station will be allocated to each project for the duration of the Showcase, and conference attendees will be encouraged to visit the stations to view/experience the projects. Showcase presenters must register for and attend the conference, and must be prepared to bring along to the conference venue their own hardware and any other equipment that is required for their demo. They will be responsible for setting up and tearing down their stations, and are expected not only to be present at their stations to run their demos and interact with visitors during the Showcase, but also to participate in other presentations/sessions that are part of the Special Track. Proposals may be submitted at https://goo.gl/forms/UPoS5DMPlSgTciZU2 any time before 22 October 2018. Notification of acceptance or otherwise will be on or before 29 October 2018.

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Job: Associate Director of the Design Cultures & Creativity Program at Univ of Maryland
by Jason Farman 05 Oct '18

05 Oct '18

Hi AoIR, My program at the University of Maryland, College Park, is hiring an Associate Director! Please consider applying or passing this job along to people who would be a great fit for the position. The Design Cultures & Creativity Program is an interdisciplinary program, with students drawn from 45 different majors on campus. The Associate Director position is a professional-track faculty job with administrative responsibilities. I'm happy to answer any questions you have about the job or the program! Best, Jason -- Jason Farman, Ph.D. Director, Design Cultures & Creativity Program Associate Professor of American Studies Faculty Member, Human-Computer Interaction Lab University of Maryland, College Park http://www.jasonfarman.com <http://www.jasonfarman.com> http://twitter.com/farman New Book Out Fall 2018: Delayed Response < http://jasonfarman.com/delayedresponse/> *ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, DESIGN CULTURES & CREATIVITY PROGRAM* *All applicants MUST apply at the following website, NOT via email submission:* - https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/64078 *PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:* Design Cultures & Creativity (DCC) is a living-learning program in the Honors College at the University of Maryland, College Park. DCC fosters an open, collaborative, and social environment that encourages students to explore the relationship between emerging media, society, and creative practices. We are passionate about emerging technologies and their impact on the world; but even more importantly, how our contributions to emerging technologies can change the world. DCC students are innovative thinkers and makers who engage in research and collaborative projects on topics as varied as identity, connectivity, social justice, art, design, and all things creative in an era when digital media links us on a scale unprecedented in human history. *POSITION DESCRIPTION: * The Associate Director is a full-time, 12-month position that provides academic, instructional, and administrative support to the Design Cultures & Creativity (DCC) Program in the Honors College at the University of Maryland. We are seeking a passionate, creatively-minded, well organized academic professional, a person with vision and skill as an administrator, a gifted teacher with a passion for undergraduate education, and an interdisciplinary scholar that can bridge creative practice with research. The successful candidate must be self-motivated, driven, and an interdisciplinary thinker/maker able to wear many hats. Core components of the position include development of innovative curriculum and experiential programming, strategic planning, classroom instruction, and advising of first- and second-year students in an active living and learning academic environment. Administrative, advising, and program management duties are also an important component of this position. In addition, candidates should be extremely comfortable with a range of new technologies and approaches to project development. Candidates should be able link emerging technologies with social implications relating to identity such as gender, race, class, and sexual orientation. Candidates should show a strong commitment to teaching and mentoring a diverse student population; candidates who have experience working with a diverse range of faculty, staff, and students and who can contribute to the climate of inclusivity are encouraged to identify their experiences in these areas. *RESPONSIBILITIES:* The AD will teach a 1-2/semester course load as well as direct related co-curricular programming. Some of the topics of these courses can be tailored to fit the Associate Director’s areas of interest and expertise. Previous courses have included: Mobile Media Design and Culture; Time-Based Media; Art and Environmental Practices; Digital Storytelling; Expanded Cinema; Gender, Race and Labor in the Digital World; Human-Centered Design; and Digital Media and Political Activism. Additional responsibilities include logistical and organizational support for program events and activities; coordination and implementation of annual student recruitment; planning and coordination of the DCC annual Capstone Fair and Exhibition; coordination of guest artist and guest faculty engagements; administration of office tasks; scheduling and implementation of periodic advising sessions with program students; work with scheduling officers in the College of Arts and Humanities as well as the Honors College to develop course offerings. Since this position involves a large amount of student contact, candidates must feel comfortable and enjoy working with university applicants, admitted undergraduates, and their families. *Minimum Qualifications:* - Ph.D. or equivalent terminal degree in relevant field - Degree conferral date no later than November 1, 2018 - At least 1 year teaching experience at college/university level - Administrative skills appropriate for daily program operations such as: event planning, budget and finance management, scheduling, recruitment, and student advising. - Hands-on skills in digital media. Areas of particular interest include: 3D printing or other forms of digital fabrication, digital design and architecture, video/film, human-computer interaction, gaming, virtual reality, and mobile development/app design. - Excellent written, oral, computing and presentation skills, as well as enthusiasm, strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate in person and via email with all levels of program constituents which include students, graduate students, campus faculty and staff, administrators, alumni and off campus community partners. *SALARY: * Commensurate with experience *TO APPLY:* Applicants should submit a cover letter describing their qualifications and interests, a current C.V., and three letters of reference. Finalists will be asked to submit evidence of teaching excellence and a portfolio of digital projects. For best consideration, submit materials *by October 26, 2018*. *Apply via:* - *https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/64078 <https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/64078>* Anticipated start: December 2018. Posting Date: 10/05/2018. Closing Date: Open Until Filled. Best Consideration Date: 10/26/2018. *Campus/College Information:* Founded in 1856, University of Maryland, College Park is the flagship institution in the University System of Maryland. Our 1,250-acre College Park campus is just minutes away from Washington, D.C., and the nexus of the nation’s legislative, executive, and judicial centers of power. This unique proximity to business and technology leaders, federal departments and agencies, and a myriad of research entities, embassies, think tanks, cultural centers, and non-profit organizations is simply unparalleled. Synergistic opportunities for our faculty and students abound and are virtually limitless in the nation’s capital and surrounding areas. The University is committed to attracting and retaining outstanding and diverse faculty and staff that will enhance our stature of preeminence in our three missions of teaching, scholarship, and full engagement in our community, the state of Maryland, and in the world. *Diversity Statement:* The University of Maryland, College Park, an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations regarding nondiscrimination and affirmative action; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment. The University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, creed, marital status, political affiliation, personal appearance, or on the basis of rights secured by the First Amendment, in all aspects of employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.

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CFP AAG 19: Gendering the Smart City: Towards just and feminist urban futures
by Ryan Burns 05 Oct '18

05 Oct '18

We welcome submissions for the 2019 American Association of Geographers meeting in Washington, DC April 3-7. This large interdisciplinary conference regularly attracts 6-8,000 attendees across a broad spectrum of disciplinary homes. Gendering the Smart City: Towards just and feminist urban futures Organisers: Ryan Burns, Ayona Datta, Nabeela Ahmed, Max Andrucki The critical smart cities research agenda continues to develop insights into evolving relations between the digital, the urban, and socio-political process. Attention has broadened from taxonomies and ontological questions, to ideal-types and dominant epistemologies, to interrogating the “actually-existing smart city”. This trajectory has brought to the fore variegations and fissures in the politics of the smart city within which elements of social justice can appear, where smart city visions can adapt to and address low-tech infrastructures and where populations can contest the smart city’s often business-friendly, empiricist, governmentalizing, and neoliberal tendencies. Researchers have, indeed, recently illuminated smart city models that might contain necessary conditions for making strides toward more just, accessible and participatory urban life. However, in all this literature, researchers have neglected the underlying gendered dynamics of these processes. Feminist and queer theory can provide productive new ways forward in critiquing smart cities agendas globally. Such theoretical frameworks can illuminate how bodies, subjectivities, labour, aspirations, anxieties, temporalities, in/visibilities, and social time are colonized and silenced in smart cities. From critical GIS to critical data studies, to digital geographies and through creative digital practices, researchers have leveraged these frameworks to show the uneven and gendered impacts that digital technologies have across a range of metrics of difference. Applying these frameworks to smart cities can illuminate the ways new forms of technological urbanism subtend socio-political inequalities, epistemological legitimacies, and sustained social injustices. Even further, doing so may deepen our understandings of how gender, sexuality, race, class and geopolitical power frame the imagination and governance of smart urban futures. To this end, we welcome abstract submissions related to a range of related feminist, queer, and critical theories, that deepen our understanding of smart cities as theory, policy and lived practice. Such topics include, but are not limited to: • Uneven gendered geographies of smart technologies • Hetero-normativity of smart cities • The colonization of bodies and time in smart cities • Spaces and flows of gender and sexuality within the smart city • Materiality and semiotics of gender, subjectivity, bodies in smart cities • Gender and social justice in the smart city • Intersectionality and the digital-urban • Post-colonial and feminist urban futures in the smart city • Situated knowledges and epistemologies in the smart city Please submit paper abstracts to Ryan Burns (ryan.burns1(a)ucalgary.ca<mailto:ryan.burns1@ucalgary.ca>) and Ayona Datta (ayona.datta(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:ayona.datta@kcl.ac.uk>) by October 19th. Cheers, Ryan -- Ryan Burns, PhD Department of Geography Engaging Open Data Research O'Brien Institute for Public Health University of Calgary http://burnsr77.github.io<http://burnsr77.github.io/>

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REMINDER/Deadline 29 Oct. - CfP GIG-ARTS 2019 Salerno: "Europe as a Global Player in Internet Governance" 16-17 May 2019
by Mauro SANTANIELLO 05 Oct '18

05 Oct '18

Dear colleagues, As the deadline for abstracts submission is approaching, please find hereafter the updated CFP for the GIG-ARTS 2019 conference: after Paris in 2017 and Cardiff in 2018, we hope to welcome you in Salerno in 2019 to discuss "Europe as a Global Player in Internet Governance"! ========== *GIG-ARTS 2019 – The Third European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies* *16-17 May 2019, SalernoEurope as a Global Player in Internet Governance* *Organised by:*The Internet & Communication Policy Centre / Department of Political, Social and Communication Sciences / Università degli Studi di Salerno *Co-Sponsored By:*The Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), The ECPR Standing Group on Internet and Politics, The Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet), the IAMCR Communication Policy and Technology Section, The ICA Communication Law and Policy Division. *Call for Abstracts - Deadline: 29 October 2018* Although to varying degrees of autonomy, awareness, and effectiveness over time and issues, European institutions have been engaged in internet governance and policy-making since at least two decades. Both the European Union and Europe as a region have generally played a crucial role in shaping the governance of the internet, at the global, regional and national levels. >From a geopolitical perspective, the EU has been one of the early actors advocating for the internationalisation of the DNS system and, more generally, for the enhancement of the multi-stakeholder governance model. >From a normative point of view, EU institutions as well as Member States have deeply affected highly sensitive internet-related issues, such as privacy and data protection, digital market competition, consumers' rights, copyright, e-commerce, content regulation, the right to be forgotten, etc. On the institutional level, some of the most interesting cases of recent constituent policies have emerged from the European Union, leading to the establishment of new agencies such as the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) and the European Data Protection Board (EDPB). Beyond the EU, some European intergovernmental organisations, such as the Council of Europe (CoE), have developed structured initiatives to uphold human rights, democracy and the rule of law on internet governance issues. Further, a number of European initiatives, such as the European Dialogue on internet Governance (EuroDIG) and the Global internet Policy Observatory (GIPO), have facilitated the transfer of ideas, knowledge, policies and institutional arrangements towards other countries and geographic areas. Finally, European NGOs as well as some European internet companies are currently advancing alternative visions and values about the internet and its governance, enriching the set of internet governance approaches as well as available design options. The third edition of the European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Regulations, Transactions and Strategies (GIG-ARTS 2019), will be held exactly twenty years after the entry into force of the Amsterdam Treaty and ten years after the Lisbon Treaty, which are milestones in the history of the European integration process, preparing the EU for enlargement and further deepening of competences, and reinforcing the centrality of democratic principles and the protection of fundamental rights as the Union's foundation. After having addressed “Global Internet Governance as a Diplomacy Issue” at its first edition held in Paris in 2017, and "Inequalities in Internet Governance" at the second edition held in Cardiff in 2018, the 2019 GIG-ARTS conference will explore the role of Europe in the global governance of the internet. In particular, the conference will focus on challenges and opportunities, as well as strengths and weaknesses, of European approaches to internet governance and policy-making. In addition to general internet Governance issues and topics, submissions are particularly welcome on the following themes: - European institutions and Member States in internet governance; - The European approach to the multistakeholder governance model; - The role of the European External Action Service in the Global Internet Governance ecosystem; - Internet governance in the European Neighbourhood Policy; - The EU cybersecurity policy; - Extraterritorial effects of European internet policies; - Internet-related geopolitical challenges for Europe; - The EU and internet-related policy transfer; - EU internet policies in a comparative perspective; - Human rights, democracy and the rule of law in European internet policy and instruments; - Privacy and data protection after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); - Global online platforms and EU general policies (labour, taxation, transport,..); - EU strategies and policies on new technologies (AI, robots, blockchains,..); - European good governance values and internet governance; - The Digital Single Market and international trade; - The EU and the management of critical internet resources; - Populist movements and the European internet policy-making; - EU values, European internet companies, and internet design. *Submission Information and Publication Opportunities*Authors are invited to submit their extended abstracts (no longer than 500 words), describing their research question(s), theoretical framework, approach and methodology, expected findings or empirical outcome. Submitted abstracts will be evaluated through a peer-review process. Abstracts and authors’ information should be submitted through the Easychair conference management system at: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gigarts2019 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gigarts2019>*Authors of selected submissions will have the opportunity to submit their full manuscript for publication. *Key dates*Deadline for abstract submissions: 29 October 2018 Notification to authors: 10 December 2018 Programme publication: 21 January 2019 Conference dates: 16 & 17 May 2019 *GIG-ARTS 2019 Committees * *General Chairs *Francesco Amoretti and Mauro Santaniello Internet & Communication Policy Centre, Department of Political, Social and Communication Sciences, University of Salerno, Italy *Scientific Program Committee* - Eric Brousseau (Université Paris Dauphine, France) - Andrea Calderaro (Cardiff University, United Kingdom) - George Christou (University of Warwick, United Kingdom) - William J. Drake (University of Zurich, Switzerland) - Nanette S. Levinson (American University Washington DC, USA) - Robin Mansell (London School of Economics, United Kingdom) - Meryem Marzouki (CNRS and Sorbonne Université, France) - Teresa Numerico (Università di Roma 3, Italy) - Claudia Padovani (Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy) - Elena Pavan (Università di Trento, Italy) - Lorenzo Pupillo (Centre for European Policy Studies, Belgium) - Michèle Rioux (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada) - Katharine Sarikakis (University of Vienna, Austria) - Yves Schemeil (Sciences Po Grenoble, France) - Jan Aart Scholte (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) - Jamal Shahin (VUB, Belgium & University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) - Michele Sorice (LUISS University, Italy) - Joris van Hoboken (VUB, Belgium & University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) *Organizing Committee at University of Salerno*Maria Carmela Catone, Virgilio D'Antonio, Paolo Diana, Domenico Fracchiolla, Stefania Leone, Michele Nino, Nicola Palladino, Diana Salzano *Venue*The conference will be held at the University of Salerno, on the campus of Fisciano. *Conference Registration and Fees* Registration fees are 100€ for regular participants and 50€ for students showing proof of status. The conference fees include a participant kit as well as coffee breaks and meals. *GIG-ARTS 2019 Communication Details* - Website: events.gig-arts.eu | http://www.internetpolicyresearch.eu - Email for information: events(a)gig-arts.eu - Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gigarts2019 - Twitter: @GigArtsEU - Hashtag: #GIGARTS19 - Mailing list for updates: http://tinyurl.com/yc7rvxm4 Best wishes, Mauro Santaniello Internet & Communication Policy Centre Department of Political, Social and Communication Sciences Università degli Studi di Salerno Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132 84084 Fisciano (SA) - Italy E. msantaniello(a)unisa.it W. http://docenti.unisa.it/mauro.santaniello M. +393345217528 Skype: internetpolicy T. twitter.com/webvoodoo

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CFP AAG 19: Gendering the Smart City: Towards just and feminist urban futures
by Ryan Burns 05 Oct '18

05 Oct '18

We welcome submissions for the 2019 American Association of Geographers meeting in Washington, DC April 3-7. This large interdisciplinary conference regularly attracts 6-8,000 attendees across a broad spectrum of disciplinary homes. Gendering the Smart City: Towards just and feminist urban futures Organisers: Ryan Burns, Ayona Datta, Nabeela Ahmed, Max Andrucki The critical smart cities research agenda continues to develop insights into evolving relations between the digital, the urban, and socio-political process. Attention has broadened from taxonomies and ontological questions, to ideal-types and dominant epistemologies, to interrogating the “actually-existing smart city”. This trajectory has brought to the fore variegations and fissures in the politics of the smart city within which elements of social justice can appear, where smart city visions can adapt to and address low-tech infrastructures and where populations can contest the smart city’s often business-friendly, empiricist, governmentalizing, and neoliberal tendencies. Researchers have, indeed, recently illuminated smart city models that might contain necessary conditions for making strides toward more just, accessible and participatory urban life. However, in all this literature, researchers have neglected the underlying gendered dynamics of these processes. Feminist and queer theory can provide productive new ways forward in critiquing smart cities agendas globally. Such theoretical frameworks can illuminate how bodies, subjectivities, labour, aspirations, anxieties, temporalities, in/visibilities, and social time are colonized and silenced in smart cities. From critical GIS to critical data studies, to digital geographies and through creative digital practices, researchers have leveraged these frameworks to show the uneven and gendered impacts that digital technologies have across a range of metrics of difference. Applying these frameworks to smart cities can illuminate the ways new forms of technological urbanism subtend socio-political inequalities, epistemological legitimacies, and sustained social injustices. Even further, doing so may deepen our understandings of how gender, sexuality, race, class and geopolitical power frame the imagination and governance of smart urban futures. To this end, we welcome abstract submissions related to a range of related feminist, queer, and critical theories, that deepen our understanding of smart cities as theory, policy and lived practice. Such topics include, but are not limited to: • Uneven gendered geographies of smart technologies • Hetero-normativity of smart cities • The colonization of bodies and time in smart cities • Spaces and flows of gender and sexuality within the smart city • Materiality and semiotics of gender, subjectivity, bodies in smart cities • Gender and social justice in the smart city • Intersectionality and the digital-urban • Post-colonial and feminist urban futures in the smart city • Situated knowledges and epistemologies in the smart city Please submit paper abstracts to Ryan Burns (ryan.burns1(a)ucalgary.ca<mailto:ryan.burns1@ucalgary.ca>) and Ayona Datta (ayona.datta(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:ayona.datta@kcl.ac.uk>) by October 19th. Cheers, Ryan -- Ryan Burns, PhD Department of Geography Engaging Open Data Research O'Brien Institute for Public Health University of Calgary http://burnsr77.github.io<http://burnsr77.github.io/>

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A digital divide resource for educators with a Canadian focus
by David Brake 05 Oct '18

05 Oct '18

Dear all, To prepare for an upcoming course at the University of Alberta I have assembled a set of recent resources on digital divides for my students to refer to - selected survey-based statistics on internet and social media use in Canada, supplemented by a few major US, UK and global links and a bit of context on internet use in the territories (the far North of Canada) where there seems to be very little survey data. I hope you will find it useful for your own courses - I have shared it with you with “commenting” enabled in case you have comments or further resources to suggest - particularly, of course, Canadian ones. I know it is nothing like comprehensive in its non-Canadian data sources but if I have missed anything huge let me know. While the document I have shared is concentrating on sources of data, I would be interested separately if you could recommend by email recent scholarly articles that provide an overview of Canadian digital divide issues. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qDDAw0KYuxGkzmvSjyODZTv3pb3KUq1QVog1G7i… Regards, Dr David Brake, Researcher and Educator http://davidbrake.org/, @drbrake Author of "Sharing Our Lives Online: Risks and Exposure in Social Media” https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline <https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline>

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WEBCAST TODAY: New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future – NYC Book Event
by Joly MacFie 04 Oct '18

04 Oct '18

Is the Internet half-empty or half-full? Tune in tonight! <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/DigitalCooperation> [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/newdarkage/%22%3Ehttps://livestream.…> Today, *Thursday October 4 2018*, at *7pm EDT* (23:00 UTC) *Eyebeam <https://www.eyebeam.org/> *presents a book event – *New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future <https://www.eyebeam.org/events/welcome-wednesday-new-dark-age-technology-an…>*. In this new work Eyebeam alum *James Bridle* offers us a warning against the future in which the contemporary promise of a new technologically assisted Enlightenment may just deliver its opposite: an age of complex uncertainty, predictive algorithms, surveillance, and the hollowing out of empathy. Surveying the history of art, technology and information systems he reveals the dark clouds that gather over discussions of the digital sublime. Today he will speak about the book with current Eyebeam Journalism R&D Resident, *Ingrid Burrington*. The event will be webcast live on the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/>* and YouTube <https://youtu.be/_a-Dkoq59bA>. *VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/newdarkage/ <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/newdarkage/>VIEW ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/_a-Dkoq59bA <https://youtu.be/_a-Dkoq59bA>BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076NR24RZ/ <https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076NR24RZ/>TWITTER: #NewDarkAge https://bit.ly/newdarkage <https://bit.ly/newdarkage>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/10601/ <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/%E2%80%8Bhttps://isoc.live/10601/> -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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WEBCAST TODAY – LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media – NYC Book Event
by Joly MacFie 04 Oct '18

04 Oct '18

This event was so packed I couldn't livestream it, but I did record. This was the official launch event. Today the authors are in DC for two more sessions New America <https://youtu.be/a5F5Wi1exhI> and CSIS <https://youtu.be/OFwCpBiePuk>. One of them just tweeted that, one day after release, the book is already on its 2nd printing. <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/DigitalCooperation> <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/dataprivacy> [image: livestream] <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/likewar>Today, *Thursday October 3 2018*, at *3pm ET* (19:00 UTC) the *Internet Society Livestream Channel <https://livestream.com/internetsociety>* will webcast yesterday’s *NYC launch <https://www.newamerica.org/nyc/events/likewar/>* of* LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media <https://www.amazon.com/LikeWar-Weaponization-P-W-Singer/dp/1328695743>*. In this new book authors *Peter W. Singer* and *Emerson T. Brooking *study what social media has been doing to politics, news, and war around the world, drawing upon everything from historic cases to the latest in AI and machine intelligence. At this event, hosted New America NYC, the authors were joined in conversation by *Kate Brannen*, Editorial Director, Just Security, as they tackled the questions that arose during their five years of research: What can be kept secret in a world of networks? Does social media expose the truth or bury it? And what role do ordinary people now play in international conflicts? *View on Livestream: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/likewar <https://livestream.com/internetsociety/likewar>Twitter: #LikeWar http://bit.ly/2RrrYov <http://bit.ly/2RrrYov>* *Permalink* https://isoc.live/10598/ <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/%E2%80%8Bhttps://isoc.live/10598/%E2%80%8B> -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast -------------------------------------------------------------- -

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14th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2018): Call for Participation
by Announce Announcements 04 Oct '18

04 Oct '18

*** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** 14th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2018) St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus, 15-17 October, 2018 http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=YWlyLUwJCQlhaXItTEBsaXN0c2Vydi… WiMob is an international forum for the exchange of knowledge and experience among researchers, developers and practitioners of wireless and mobile technology. For fourteen years, the International WiMob conference has provided unique opportunities for researchers and developers to interact, share new results, show live demonstrations, and discuss emerging directions in a number of contemporary topics in wireless and mobile computing. WiMob 2018 features keynote talks by Mohammad S. Obaidat, Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of SCS on "Wireless Network Systems as Key Enabling Technology for Smart Homes and Cities and Samples of our Related Recent Works", and Markus Gruber, Nokia Bell Labs, Germany on "5G as an End-to-End Vision". The technical program comprises 100 accepted contributions in a number of technical sessions, including 6 workshops. There are also a number of travel grants awards for student authors. Please visit the conference web site for detailed and updated information.

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New Book out now: Interdiscursive Readings in Cultural Consumer Research
by george rossolatos 04 Oct '18

04 Oct '18

*Title: *Interdiscursive Readings in Cultural Consumer Research *Publishing house: *Cambridge Scholars Publishing *ISBN (print): *978-1-5275-1372-3 *Author: *George Rossolatos *Release date: *August 2018 *Pages: *350 The cultural consumption research landscape of the 21st century is marked by an increasing cross-disciplinary fermentation. At the same time, cultural theory and analysis have been marked by successive ‘inter-’ turns, most notably with regard to the Big Four: multimodality (or intermodality), interdiscursivity, transmediality (or intermediality), and intertextuality. This book offers an outline of interdiscursivity as an integrative platform for accommodating these notions. To this end, a call for a return to Foucault is issued via a critical engagement with the so-called practice-turn. This re-turn does not seek to reconstitute venerably Foucauldianism, but to theorize ‘inters-’ as vanishing points that challenge the integrity of discrete cultural orders in non-convergent manners. The propounded interdiscursivity approach is offered as a reading strategy that permeates the contemporary cultural consumption phenomena that are scrutinized in this book, against a pan-consumptivist framework. By drawing on qualitative and mixed methods research designs, facilitated by CAQDAS software, the empirical studies that are hosted here span a vivid array of topics that are directly relevant to both traditional and new media researchers, such as the consumption of ideologies in Web 2.0 social movements, the ability of micro-celebrities to act as cultural game-changers, the post-loyalty abjective consumption ethos. The theoretically novel approaches on offer are coupled with methodological innovations in areas such as user-generated content, artists’ branding, and experiential consumption. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1527513726/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i7 https://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/64776 http://www.cambridgescholars.com/interdiscursive-readings-in-cultural- consumer-research https://books.google.gr/books?id=6no-ugEACAAJ&dq=Interdiscursive+Readings+in +Cultural+Consumer+Research&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiLwL6M5svdAhUFBywKHQAZDhwQ 6AEIKDAA https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3163301

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