I sent the following announcement to air-l@listserv.aoir.org, it bounced back saying the mailbox was full. Is it possible? shing-ling ************************** 2016 Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture: Leopoldina Fortunati The 2016 Steve Jones Internet Research Lecture features Leopoldina Fortunati (University of Udine, Italy), at 12 pm, on June 14, 2016, in Hilton Fukuoka Sea Hawk, International Communication Association’s 66th Annual Conference, in Fukuoka, Japan. The title of Fortunati’s lecture is “Feminism, labor and the mechanization of everyday life.” In the lecture, Fortunati will adopt a political economy approach to examine the issue of machines diffusion in everyday life, which connects machines with labor, value production and struggles/resistance, especially by women, against the present organization and division of labor. Fortunati will address the social and political role of machines in society, as well as social robots, which can be considered in many ways the next new media. Some social robots built in recent years in many laboratories are ready to be launched on the market and more generally placed in society. But the conceptual tools to handle this last mile to go still need to be fully developed. When an object of such technological complexity and with such rhetorical power, like robots are, is no longer used only by niches of innovators or users (such as autistic) but is proposed as a good of mass consumption, a series of problems, new themes and strategies comes into the spotlight. This event is co-sponsored by the Carl Couch Center for Social and Internet Research (www.cccsir.com), University of Illinois, Chicago, and the International Communication Association. For more information about this event, please contact Shing-Ling Sarina Chen, sarina.chen@uni.edu.