Dear Harry (Dyer), 2026 SM Society, Microsoft CMT & AoIR colleagues, Greetings from World University and School, building on MIT OCW in its ~7 languages (https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/), and from near Berkeley and Stanford. I've received 2 notices from the Microsoft CMT (Content Management Team) in Redmond, Washington, and most recently to my president@worlduniversityandschool.org email address, that we would hear results about our extended abstracts, and regarding at the University of Glasgow in mid July, that, after a 5 day delay, we would hear back today, but I haven't heard anything yet; please advise. And should I be getting a new US passport soon? (It was stolen some years ago in Canyon CA 94516). Thank you. And here again is my 1000-1500 word abstract - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/01/loch-lomond-and-trossachs-nationa... . Thanks, Scott Scott Gordon K MacLeod https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/01/loch-lomond-and-trossachs-nationa... - Scott GK MacLeod Founder, President, CEO & Professor at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki, World University & School (WUaS) - USPS US Post Office, PO Box 132, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516 PS Delay to results notifications - new paper notifications on March 6th External Inbox Search for all messages with label Inbox Remove label Inbox from this conversation Microsoft CMT <noreply@msr-cmt.org> Mon, Mar 2, 11:36 AM (4 days ago) Add reaction Reply More to me Dear Gordon K MacLeod, Thank-you for your submission to the 2026 International Conference on Social Media & Society . We had planned to send out paper notifications to you today. However, there are still some outstanding reviews and we did not plan quite enough time to manage this. We will need a few more days to manage this process. 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IMPORTANT NOTICE: This transmission and any attachments are intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential, or exempt from disclosure under applicable federal or state laws. If the reader of this transmission is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify me immediately by email or telephone. World University and School is sending you this because of your interest in free, online, higher education. If you don't want to receive these, please reply with 'unsubscribe' in the body of the email, leaving the subject line intact. Thank you. On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 11:50 AM Scott MacLeod <helianth@gmail.com> wrote:
Greetings Harry and AoIR colleagues,
I'm seeking to submit an extended paper abstract for the 2026 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) conference in Glasgow by this Monday 1/26/26. But in trying to create a CMT account e.g. here - https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/User/Welcome - I first used my email address president@worlduniversityandschool.org ... but didn't get an activation email as stated, so I tried to create another account with my helanth@gmail.com per a suggestion on the registration confirmation page (and see the PS), and also did not get an activation email to allow me to access my new CMT account and register. I still, ~15 minutes later, haven't received any activation emails to either email address. What to do please?
Thanks also to Cândida Almeida <candidaalmeida@gmail.com>, also from Brazil like Alice Roberte, and both being native Portuguese speakers, for the request to see my upcoming "Society, Information Technology and the Global University" book manuscript.
Thanks, Scott (Gordon K MacLeod. - I used my legal name when registering with CMT both times).
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/01/cairngorms.html
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PPS Scott proposed submitting a chapter from his forthcoming book ...
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Scott MacLeod <helianth@gmail.com> Wed, Jan 21, 1:01 PM (22 hours ago) Add reaction Reply More to *wuas_ceo*, *wuascorpceoclerk*, *aliceroberte*, *info*, *gruzd*, *AoIR-L*, Harry Greetings Harry and AoIR colleagues,
On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 1:01 PM Scott MacLeod <helianth@gmail.com> wrote:
Greetings Harry and AoIR colleagues,
Thanks so much for your kind email Harry, regarding the 2026 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) (in the PS). And thanks to Alice Roberte de Oliveira (any relation to MIT OCW/s first director Ceciila d'Oliveira?) for your email inquiry to view, and potentially comment on (thanks GDocs!) my "Society, Information Technology and the Global University" book manuscript, and see the PPS below.
Alice Roberte, All, here's the beginning of Brazil World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brazil - and Portuguese_language wiki subject - the https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Portuguese_language - both planned in Portuguese language - and since you are from Brazil and have done ethnography there for your Ph.D.
Harry and AoIR, the WUaS Press has published five books so far ... and is planning an Academic Press at WUaS in all 7159 known living languages, with machine learning translation, and human translators too - and in planning further to develop a WUaS Universal Translator - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator - and in that WUaS is also in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program. Alice, I am curious about your thoughts for both the translation of my "Society, Information Technology, and the Global University" upcoming book into the Portuguese language (and see https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Portuguese_language (planned in Portuguese, and in ALL the other languages in Brazil - accessible from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages ).
Also for your information, and regarding how wiki WUaS works, I just added a [[Portuguese language]] newly to the https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States page and near the beginning Brazil World University and School.
And here are some MIT OCW courses in the Portuguese language https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/portuguese/ https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/
And regarding the first chapter in Part II in my "Society, Info Tech and the Global University" book, this conference, and also teh https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Social_Media wiki subject at WUaS (planned in all 200 countries and their main languages, and possibly in all 7159 living languages), I'd be curious about the trajectory of the International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) since 2014, the emails for the founders of which, Philip Mai and Anatoly Grudz, I've added above, and see the PPPPS.
Thanks, and more later.
Best wishes, Scott Blogged about some of this here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/01/cairngorms.html
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Harry Dyer (EDU - Staff) 3:51 AM (8 hours ago) Add reaction Reply More to me
Dear Scott,
Thank you for your interest in SMSociety, you are more than welcome to submit an extended abstract for peer review before our deadlines. Details of how to do so can be found here ( https://socialmediaandsociety.org/2025/call-for-submissions-smsociety-july-1... ).
Best wishes,
Harry and the SMSociety team
*From:* Scott MacLeod <helianth@gmail.com> *Sent:* 20 January 2026 18:39 *To:* Harry Dyer (EDU - Staff) <Harry.T.Dyer@uea.ac.uk>; wuas_ceo@worlduniversityandschool.org; wuascorpceoclerk@worlduniversityandschool.org *Cc:* AoIR-L Listserv <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> *Subject:* Re: [Air-L] Final call for papers
PPS
Hi Alice,
Thanks for your request to access "Society, Information Technology, and the Global University" book (and re AoIR). I'd be grateful for your comments, and both for the 2026 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) at the University of Glasgow, and since the 1st conference even in 2014, and particularly regarding the Academic Press at WUaS eventually translating it into Portuguese for Brazil World University and School students and Brazilians.
Thanks, Scott Scott GK MacLeod (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org, helianth@gmail.com, wuascorpceoclerk@worlduniversityandschool.org)
Society, Info Tech and the Global University manuscript
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YJg2icBhxEj7eSiSoiN2mgusX4PK1cQfZRFPRdw5...
PPPS My notes -
aliceroberte@gmail.com
Alice Roberte https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9815-2368
https://unb.academia.edu/AliceRoberte
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/social-historical-sciences/anthropology/research/centr...
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pSvcb3kAAAAJ&hl=en
PPPPS
The first International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety) was held in 2014, hosted by Ryerson University's Social Media Lab in Toronto, Canada, on September 27–28, focusing on interdisciplinary research into social media trends. The conference itself was founded by Anatoliy Gruzd and Philip Mai in 2010/2011, leading to the first official event in 2014
Philip Mai https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-mai-6a649147/
info@socialmedialab.ca
Anatoliy Grudzi
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gruzd/?originalSubdomain=ca
gruzd@torontomu.ca
On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 10:38 AM Scott MacLeod <helianth@gmail.com> wrote:
Greetings Harry and AoIR colleagues,
Greetings from the SF Bay Area near Berkeley and Stanford.
Just beginning part 2 of my "Society, Information Technology and the Global University" book (Academic Press at World University and School, 2026, forthcoming) on the global university and World University and School, building on MIT OCW in 7 languages, and planned in all 200 countries, and in their main languages for free-to-students' Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, IB high sch / similar (for 16-19 year olds), AA / AS, and Master's degrees - and wiki schools for people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning in all 7159 known living languages. In a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program, World University and School is seeking to facilitate highest quality free universal education from home, and in seeking to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - for a variety of reasons. Much of MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School will also grow in a #RealisticVirtualEarth and think Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, and with TensorFlow AI and STEM field sites, and classrooms etc too; and please see Peter Norvig's INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article "Revolutionizing Education with Machine Learning and AI" #WorldUniversityInSchool updated March 2, 2024 - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learni... - where he mentions a realistic virtual earth for the first time other than WUaS that I know of.
Might I give as a paper the first chapter in Part 2 of my "Society, Information Technology and the Global University" book (possibly in 2026, or 2027) at 2026 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety), which will take place in Glasgow, Scotland, from July 13th-15th? You'll find a Google Docs' link here in World University and School's 12/15/25 Weekly Business Meeting Agenda item A to the first 8 chapters for my book -
https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2025/12/brooks-range-ak-m-1215... - for which I'm happy to share permissions, if you or AoIR researchers might be interested. World University and School's OPEN Weekly Business Meetings are loosely conducted in the Manner of Friends / unprogrammed Quakers Monthly Business Meeting ... and I'm wondering too Harry Dyer, with your somewhat Quaker last name (re Friend Mary Dyer in the 1650s) whether you might have Quaker ancestry that even informs your Digital Sociology research and related academic querying. (I've also lived for 2 full years studying in Edinburgh, Scotland -where I became a member of the RSOF Religious Society of Friends in 2004 - and would be interested in sharing my "Society, Information Technology and the Global University" book in Scotland, for example; Harry Dyer, do you have Friendly Quaker affinities by any chance?).
Here's the very beginning of free Scotland World University and School - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scotland (from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States)
planned in English, Scottish Gaelic, and the Scots languages, eventually accessible from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages and as LLMs too ...
and check out the Academic Subjects here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (planned in all 7159 known living languages)
and for their MIT OCW courses, eventually for credit for free WUaS degrees re these versions of OpenCourseWare - https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/ & https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/
with an invitation to begin a wiki WUaS subject too about something you love to teach and learn about, or something you have expertise in, and in your languages.
How best to proceed please? Might it be possible to share this paper via a video component to the 2026 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety)?
Thanks, Scott Scott GK MacLeod
"Society, Information Technology and the Global University" book (forthcoming in 2026, Academic Press at WUaS) - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YJg2icBhxEj7eSiSoiN2mgusX4PK1cQfZRFPRdw5... -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2025/12/brooks-range-ak.html
https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2025/12/brooks-range-ak-m-1215...
Also
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/society%20and%20information%... (in daily blog)
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20university (in daily blog)
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M 1/19/26 Recording of free best STEM #CClicensed #OCW #wikiWUaS @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress #WUaSNewsAndQA #WUaSWeeklyBusinessMeeting11926 re #FreeWUaSdegrees building on #MITOCW in 7 languages - https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/ - in all ~200 countries, and in their main languages, emerging from M 1/19/26 Rec of #OCW #wikiWUaS @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress
using 1/12/26 Agenda & News
https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/01/roggeveld-mountains-sa...
-https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/01/roggeveld-mountains-sa.html
-https://www.youtube.com/@ScottMacLeodWorldUniversity/videos ~
https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2013660275015397650
https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2013660414098448657
https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2013660359018582333
Vid pic
https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2013661337151557721
https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2013661277927907599
https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2013661210433012179
https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2013661148458230001
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scottgkmacleod_cclicensed-ocw-wikiwuas-activi...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scott-macleod-4691a011a_cclicensed-ocw-wikiwu...
https://www.linkedin. com/posts/world-university-and-school_cclicensed-ocw-wikiwuas-activity-7419437891094913025-EEdY ~
PPS my notes -
Harry Dyer - University of East Anglia https://share.google/LrVTjaRXW9DKg5z2A
Harry T Dyer | Digital Sociology and Theory https://share.google/spIVxeHzbCgIBizFT
Harry.T.Dyer@uea.ac.uk
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Society, Information Technology, and the Global University (2026, forthcoming)
Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd <https://scottmacleodpiobaireachdscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/> (2022) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand (Berkeley)
- Poetry! Order Book #5 Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually <https://www.amazon.com/Light-Float-Sit-Watsu-Virtually/dp/0578834685> (2021)
Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune <https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/track/out-of-the-air-j-scott-gk-macleod> (2020)
Order Book #4 To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs, than to realize it in virtual reality <https://www.amazon.com/Dance-Pools-Virtually-different-Springs/dp/0578625490> (2019)
Order Book #3 Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss <https://www.amazon.com/Winding-Road-Rainbow-Harbin-Wandering/dp/0578435187> (2018)
Order Book #2 Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry <https://www.amazon.com/Haiku-ish-Other-Loving-Harbin-Poetry/dp/0692049037> (2017)
Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography <https://www.amazon.com/Naked-Harbin-Ethnography-Counterculture-Clothing-Optionality/dp/0692646132> (2016) - https://twitter.com/HarbinBook
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2026, 06:44 Harry Dyer (EDU - Staff) via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear AoIR community,
This is a final announcement for paper submissions for the 2026 International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMSociety), which will take place in Glasgow, Scotland, from July 13th-15th. As a reminder, the deadline for extended abstract submissions (1000-1500 words abstracts) is Monday, January 26, 2026 at midnight (Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time). We look forward to receiving your submissions and seeing you in Glasgow!
#SMSociety is a biennial gathering of leading social media researchers from around the world. It is the premier venue for sharing and discovering new peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research on how social media affects society. #SMSociety provides participants with opportunities to exchange ideas, present original research, learn about recent and ongoing studies, and network with peers.
The call can be found below:
https://socialmediaandsociety.org/smsociety-2026/
The 2026 conference is co-organized by the Digital Cultures and Economies Research Hub< https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/london-college-of-communication/research-at-lcc/digital-cultures-and-economies-research-hub> at the University of the Arts London (UAL), the University of East Anglia< https://www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-centres/critical-cultural-studies-in-education> (UEA), and the hosts at the Division of Urban Studies and Social Policy< https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/research/urban-studies-social-policy-research/> at Glasgow University. The conference's three-day program will feature panels and paper presentations, workshops, tutorials, networking events, and a poster session. In keeping with the conference's inter- and transdisciplinary focus, we welcome both quantitative and qualitative scholarly and original submissions that crosses disciplinary boundaries and expands our understanding of current and future trends in social media research across many fields including (but not limited to): Communication, Computer Science, Critical Data Studies, Education, Journalism, Information Science, Law, Management, Political Science, Psychology, Public Policy, Public Administration, Science and Technology, Sociology, Urban Studies, among others.
TOPICS OF INTEREST (the list is not exhaustive)
* Affordances * AI and LLMs * Algorithms * Computational, digital and data methods * Creators and Influencers * Cyberbullying, Trolling and Antisocial Behavior * Digital Education * Digital Intimacies * Discourse and Public Opinion * Health and Wellbeing * Infrastructures, platformisation and datafication * Marketing and Promotional Social Media * Misinformation and Disinformation * Online and Offline Communities * Platform Cultures * Platform Governance and Regulation * Emerging and Established Social Technologies, Apps and Platforms * Politics, Policy, and Regulation * Privacy, Security and Trust * Social Media Cultures and Everyday Life * Use and Users * Vibes, memes and trends
SUBMISSION DETAILS
* Submission types and guidelines< https://socialmediaandsociety.org/submission-types-and-guidelines/>: You can submit an extended abstract for a paper or poster presentation, and/or propose a panel, workshop or hands-on tutorial< https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSftm_yw8HDDrnuliY7GkhIy4UkebDWviCI_...
SUBMISSION DEADLINES
* Papers (Extended Abstracts): January 26, 2026 (1000-1500 words) * Panels: February 16, 2026 (2000-3000 words) * Workshops & Tutorials: February 16, 2026 (2000-3000 words) * Posters (Extended Abstracts): March 13, 2026 (1000-1500 words)
ORGANISING EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:
* Zoetanya Sujon - Reader and the Programme Director for Communications and Media courses at London College of Communication (LCC), University of the Arts London, UK * Harry Dyer - Associate Professor of Education, School of Education & Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, UK * Mark Wong - Senior Lecturer and Subject Group Lead of Social and Urban Policy, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow, UK * Devina Sarwatay - Presidential Fellow City St. George's, University of London, UK * Estaban Morales Velasquez - Assistant Professor / Media and Digital Cultures Centre for Media and Journalism Studies University of Groningen, NL * Irida Ntalla - Senior Lecturer in Digital Storytelling at London College of Communication (LCC), University of the Arts London, UK * Daniel Jordan - Postgraduate Research Student University of Glasgow, UK * Yingwen Wang - Postgraduate Research Student London College of Communications, University of the Arts London, UK * Yue Qin - Postgraduate Research Student London College of Communications, University of the Arts London, UK
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Scott MacLeod - World University books <http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity>
Society, Information Technology, and the Global University (2026, forthcoming)
Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd <https://scottmacleodpiobaireachdscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/> (2022) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand (Berkeley)
- Poetry! Order Book #5 Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually <https://www.amazon.com/Light-Float-Sit-Watsu-Virtually/dp/0578834685> (2021)
Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune <https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/track/out-of-the-air-j-scott-gk-macleod> (2020)
Order Book #4 To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs, than to realize it in virtual reality <https://www.amazon.com/Dance-Pools-Virtually-different-Springs/dp/0578625490> (2019)
Order Book #3 Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss <https://www.amazon.com/Winding-Road-Rainbow-Harbin-Wandering/dp/0578435187> (2018)
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